Contribute to Firefox or learn Python and C?

Re:Contribute to Firefox or learn Python and C? by Bostonian on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:01PM (#27229372)

"My thinking was that learning how to navigate and contribute to a large complex codebase would be a good way to self-teach in an attempt to transition to a software development role."

Are you planning to skip the step of writing simple, self-contained programs that solve the kinds of problems posed in textbooks? I would suggest doing that first.

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Re:Contribute to Firefox or learn Python and C? by TheGrkIntrprtr on Thursday May 20, 2021 @10:16PM (#27229807)

I have taken a programming course which included writing a sudoku solver in Racket etc., so I have created that kind of simple self-contained program before. I guess you mean doing the same with C++ specifically?

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Re:Contribute to Firefox or learn Python and C? by Bostonian on Friday May 21, 2021 @09:23AM (#27233663)

Yes, I think it's better to write some small C++ programs.

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