Complete Novice

[kickflare]

Hey,

I'm completely new to programmer coding and i was wondering if anyone wants to teach me? I'm a very quicker learner and i woul love to help out ^^

Also does anyone have the media software for elio photo jukebox or a patch for it so i can get my new mp3 player working?

[nls]

Rockbox is written mainly in c, there are lots of good tutorials on the net and there are many good books. I suggest you start reading because I don't think anyone here want's to be your private tutor 

[lee321987]

   I'm about to start teaching myself C.  You said Rockbox is written "mainly" in C.  What other languages will I need to learn? 
   I've got Microsoft Visual Studio, but as far as C goes it only seems to support Visual C# and Visual C++, so am I right that it will be no help?  It'd be nice to stick with one IDE.  But if not could someone suggest a good one?  (I have Cygwin now because of Rockbox)


   Thanks,

Will

[zajacattack]

You can use a C++ compiler to compile C if you really want to, but Microsolf Visual C++ will not work.
You also have to set up a Linux or cygwin development environment, which it appears you have done.
Read:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SimpleGuideToCompiling

[karashata]

Rockbox also uses some assembly code in various parts to improve performance where possible, though I doubt you'd need to concern yourself with that too much...

[zajacattack]

If this is hijacking a thread, tell me, but wouldn't that logic lead to coding all of rockbox in assembly?

[saratoga]

If this is hijacking a thread, tell me, but wouldn't that logic lead to coding all of rockbox in assembly?

No, because most code doesn't not actually impact performance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmdal%27s_Law#Speedup_in_a_sequential_program

Generally assembly is reserved for code that is performance critical enough to motivate its use.

[nls]

To start hacking rockbox, the following secion in the wiki is pretty helpful
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DocsIndex#For_Developers
it covers setting up your choice of development environment, svn etc.

@zajacattack
Assembler code is (as saratoga) said used in performance critical parts and parts that cannot be done in c (like some hardware setup). Assembler code is not portable between cpu architectures and is much harder to read/maintain for most people so it is only used where necessary.

[Smallz]

I am also very interested in learning c. Is there a specific book or website that anyone can recommend to me?

[nls]

IMHO the best way to learn is to start out with some short tutorials on the basics (most tutorials are pretty much the same) and then starting to read through real code looking up things as you go and changing stuff to see what happens.