Lesson Zero: Identifying Goals

[misskat]

So, this is lesson zero: figuring out what you want to get out of this experience. I know that for me, personally, I want to be able to hack on DW, And fix bugs that Support encounters. My primary goal is to become familiar enough with Dreamwidth's code base that I can make that happen.

What are your goals for this project? What do you want to accomplish? Will you hack for DW?

How much experience do you have? Are you familiar with other languages, or will the Perl be your first experience? Have you toyed with the command line before? Where is a good baseline for us to start?

Please comment with your responses, and any other relevant information.


( I apologize for any weirdnesses. I am dictating this via my phone. My hands are aliens.)

Comments

[azurelunatic]

I would like to hack on, around, in, and beside DW. I'd also like to learn a little more generally applicable programmy stuff, because you never know when it might be useful.

I have had a few classes, and have been marinating in IRC for the better part of the last decade. I have toyed around with some QBASIC, Visual Basic, a sampling of Pascal, and some C++ and SQL for flavor. I have touched the command line carefully, and it did not explode at least once.