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Offline gravedigg154

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learning to code
« on: December 22, 2006, 01:59:34 AM »
Does anyone know a good site that has a good tutorial on how to make patches and how to code?
EDIT: Oh and I also want to know if it is bad if one hunk out of eleven fails.
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Offline bluebrother

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Re: learning to code
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2006, 04:21:54 AM »
It is "bad" if one hunk fails, as this means a patch hasn't been applied completely. Which in turn means the source is modified partly and most probably broken.

For programming, I suggest you to just search the web and pick the guide that suits you best. As book I'd suggest "The C programming language" by Kernighan & Ritchie (but it's quite hard to read for a beginner). O'Reilly has some other nice books on that too.
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Offline scorche

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Re: learning to code
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2006, 05:35:49 AM »
As for tutorials on how to make patches, we have one in the wiki page: SimpleGuideToCompiling
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Offline gravedigg154

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Re: learning to code
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2006, 12:59:01 PM »
Thats not on how to make patches. It's on how to apply them. And Ill check those out bluebrother. Oh and what different languages does the iPod accept?
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Offline Febs

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Re: learning to code
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2006, 01:07:43 PM »
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Offline gravedigg154

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Re: learning to code
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2006, 01:11:28 PM »
Oh ok but would it matter that I'm running vmware and not cygwin?
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Offline scorche

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Re: learning to code
« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2006, 11:25:33 PM »
No it wouldn't.
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Offline gravedigg154

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Re: learning to code
« Reply #7 on: December 23, 2006, 12:51:52 PM »
Ok good.
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