Jump start help needed.

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Samstag, den 22.08.2015, 18:01 +0530 schrieb Vishnu Vivekanand:

> I have a few years of programming in the Windows environment. I have
> just started to explore the Unix/Linux/Ubuntu world. I have been
> spending a week or two around the Ubuntu home page and I am not able
> to get started in programming. Using some tutorials I have been able
> to, no further than, run some commands to setup the development
> toolkit for Ubuntu development. I request some assistance in
> transitioning into the Ubuntu world of programming, at least upto a
> point where I understand where-to-get-what to get to submitting actual
> code here. Any help/pointers would be most appreciated.
> 
there are wikipages at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment and
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributeToUbuntu#Writing_Code that should
cover the very basics. 

what exactly are you interested in working on (do you want to develop
apps on ubuntu, do you rather want to work on packaging, do you want to
fix bugs, etc)?

the community team has created a nice little interactive guide for
finding the documentation and contacts for right area of your interests
at
http://community.ubuntu.com/contribute/find-a-task/#!/toplevel/develop/null

if you want to work directly on ubuntu i would also advise to get a
launchpad account on launchpad.net, this is essential for any bug work
(and for some ubuntu projects for submitting code)

many of the more direct development conversations usually happen on IRC
channels on irc.freenode.net. if you found your area of interest i'd
recommed to lurk a little in the respective channels to get familiar
with the team working on this specific part of ubuntu.

welcome aboard :)

ciao
	oli