> Hello everyone,

Welcome, Blair!

> My name is Bair Yacishyn I am a relatively new and inexperienced  
> programmer.

No worries -- we've got people here from all skill levels. Some of us  
only pretend to contribute code (like me!).

> I am very interested in the Étoilé project and the direction it is  
> going in and would like to slowly begin to contribute to the project.

Well, like most projects, scratching your own itch is always a great  
start. What kind of app would be useful to you? What do you want the  
Etoile environment to do for you? Make something that you want to  
use, and, chances are that if it's generic enough, other people might  
want to use it too.

Oh, and most of the developers here prefer code as modified-BSD or  
LGPL (as opposed to GPL) licensed, as it makes reusing the code in  
other parts of the project easier -- just something to keep in mind  
when you're thinking about contributing.

> Currently I am in the processes of learning Objective-C through  
> "Programming in Objective-C" by Stephen Kochan. I was wondering if  
> anyone had any advice or resources they could point me to for  
> stepping into GNUstep and Étoilé developement.

Assuming you're coming from an OS X background (as most of us in the  
project have have), any of the Cocoa references (particularly older  
ones, from around 10.0/10.1 -- most of the newest Cocoa developments  
aren't in GNUstep yet) are helpful and you can play with them right  
in OS X if you've installed the developer tools. If you can find any  
of the OpenStep-specific reference books, those are really helpful too.

If you've got a working GNUstep installation (and even if you're  
testing this stuff on OS X), there are some really nice GNUstep  
tutorials here:

http://www.roard.com/docs/
http://student.fiit.stuba.sk/~kiselkov04/docu-demo/demo.html

I'm sure others on the project can throw more good references your way!

> I look forward to joining this community. Thanks.

We look forward to having you! Thank _you_!


J.




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