Will you ever consider making AIM+ open source or releasing the source code? I would love to learn the innards of this program. I'm a begining programer and eh, lets just say school dont teach you jack till 3rd or 4th year(1st year undergrad). Since i dont really know where to start, i sort of just pick and pry at other peoples code. I know C, C++, Java, Javascript, little VB, Pearl/CGI. Or if you dont/wont release the code, could you point me in the correct direction? docs/language anything? I have yet to program any windowed software so any thing along those likes would be great.(i had about a week of VB and it sucked and use Java/Javascript for my website only.)
Ne ways, as said before Great program!!!! and yes a few of us understand the pain of debugging.
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I agree OpenSource would be cool.
However, being a CS undergrad graduate myself, I do not think college helps that much at all in every day programming, just gives you the basics and the theory. The "real world" teaches you the rest, or your own invidual desire to learn, which I believe is Ryans desire.
My two cents.
However, being a CS undergrad graduate myself, I do not think college helps that much at all in every day programming, just gives you the basics and the theory. The "real world" teaches you the rest, or your own invidual desire to learn, which I believe is Ryans desire.
My two cents.
why does everything need to be open source? personaly i dont like people screwing with the things that i write. i know it makes it so noone can learn off of what i do but like i said, that code is my art, my project, if i want help with it i will ask. granted i only code in VB and MAKI right now but the principle still stands.
(god i need to teach myself c++)
(god i need to teach myself c++)
Nemessis wrote:why does everything need to be open source? personaly i dont like people screwing with the things that i write. i know it makes it so noone can learn off of what i do but like i said, that code is my art, my project, if i want help with it i will ask. granted i only code in VB and MAKI right now but the principle still stands.
(god i need to teach myself c++)
Everything does not have to be open source - that is up to those that "own" the project.
Open source though is where you will see more and more software innovation in the future. Common sense says that two or three thousand people looking at code will come up with just as good of ideas, if not better, than a team of a couple hundred or much less at a software corporation - for free.
If you are into total control of your stuff - no dont go open source, if you like to see something you started grow and grow then go open. If you do it right you retain control over the software and decide what changes will be made to the code, you just have many many options (allready written) to choose from.
Open source programs over the next ten years will become the most bug free, feature packed software packages on the net. Oh, and in most cases will be free
Microsoft, Adobe, and others are already gearing up for this and will wage an all out publicity war against open source (they will find one screwed up open source project out of tens of thousands and run with it).
Huck had it right a hundred years ago - ten people whitewashing your fence for free is better than one.
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Yah, neat program. Would be cool to be able to see how it works. Perhaps Big-O Software has some commercial plans for it so its not releasing the code.
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You don't have to look at AIM+'s code to see how it works. I can think of another AIM interface that does that exact same thing as AIM+ (the image removal and transparency parts only) that isn't open source, but it has public code. It is deadaim, and it can be found with a simple google search (i have never had success in linking to it's website, I can't even type out the URL and get there for some reason, and I KNOW it is correctly typed).
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Steve
And the best way to get into Windows Programming is to STAY AWAY from MFC. MFC is beautiful, but like C++, it will lead to the dark side. I myself perfer WINAPI in C. There isn't much support for it online, but Charles Petzold wrote some wonderful books on it published through Microsoft Press. I would suggest picking one up. I also have the Windows Developer's Handbook sitting on my shelf for some quick reference. I also suggest using the Windows API because the functions you write will be easily ported to other operating systems, and the API structure isn't that much different for either X-Windows System or the MacOS. This is just my $.02 though.
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Steve
And the best way to get into Windows Programming is to STAY AWAY from MFC. MFC is beautiful, but like C++, it will lead to the dark side. I myself perfer WINAPI in C. There isn't much support for it online, but Charles Petzold wrote some wonderful books on it published through Microsoft Press. I would suggest picking one up. I also have the Windows Developer's Handbook sitting on my shelf for some quick reference. I also suggest using the Windows API because the functions you write will be easily ported to other operating systems, and the API structure isn't that much different for either X-Windows System or the MacOS. This is just my $.02 though.
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Musatcha
An even better site is: http://sourceforge.net/.Musatcha wrote: For those of you who are looking to learn from code, check out planetsourcecode.com It's what I learned to program from.
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