Coding n Stuffs...

[donjworks]

Hello,

Im a complete Geek, and am looking for a new area of geekdom to enter. Im a big fan of rockbox, and have been getting irritated because nobody wants to make the updates I want... then I thought, why can't I? So, a few questions...

1. What language is Rockbox written in?
2. Is this an easy language to learn?
3. What code editing program do you reccomend?
4. Any good tutorials on learning this code?

Thanks...

[saratoga]

1. What language is Rockbox written in?

c

2. Is this an easy language to learn?

Depends how much experience you have.

3. What code editing program do you reccomend?

Choice of editor doesn't really matter.  You're just typing into it.

4. Any good tutorials on learning this code?

I use this just because its the first hit on google:

http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/

[elborak]

4. Any good tutorials on learning this code?

I use this just because its the first hit on google:

http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/

I think by "this code" he meant the rockbox codebase, not C.

[GodEater]

1. What language is Rockbox written in?

C, as saratoga has said, but also a fair bit of Assembler - which varies from target to target.

[tdtooke]

One thing to bear in mind, with that editor make sure you're using unix line endings.  Otherwise you'll generate ridiculous patches that replace every single line on whatever file you're modifying.  I found that out the hard way.

[GodEater]

Good point

[donjworks]

Thanks all.... I hope to start coding soon!

[mschneider]

I'm trying to start to learn C so as to contribute to rockbox. I've been doing some research and in a couple of places i've read that it is easier to learn C++ and then C. Is this even neccessarry or would it be fine to just learn C?

[tdtooke]

C++ is basically just C with support for object-oriented programming thrown in kinda as an afterthought.  The easiest language to learn and get yourself comfortable with basic concepts is probably Python.

[saratoga]

I'm trying to start to learn C so as to contribute to rockbox. I've been doing some research and in a couple of places i've read that it is easier to learn C++ and then C.

I really don't think thats true, given that c++ is tremendously more complicated and difficult to learn then c.  Also, no, knowing c++ will not help you in anyway if you just want to work on rockbox.