From f7794a1479a7879becc711c57aebdc84e769b9df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ekaitz Zárraga Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 13:59:38 +0100 Subject: Update many --- content/posts/first_time.md | 114 -------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 114 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 content/posts/first_time.md (limited to 'content/posts/first_time.md') diff --git a/content/posts/first_time.md b/content/posts/first_time.md deleted file mode 100644 index f7038a0..0000000 --- a/content/posts/first_time.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,114 +0,0 @@ -Title: My first time -Date: 2018-06-23 -Category: -Tags: -Slug: First-Time -Lang: en -Summary: Thoughts about my first contribution to free software - -The other day I remembered a very important day on my life, one of those early -beginnings that started to change my mind: **The first time I contributed to -free software**. - -My first contribution was in 2014, more specifically the 22nd of May of 2014. - -That's only 4 years ago. But, at the same time, they already passed 4 years -since then? OMG. - -You get the feeling, right? - -You may think I started coding when I was 10 or something like that. I didn't. -I learned programming in the university and not as well as a Computer Scientist -because I studied Telecommunication Engineering and computers are just a third -of the studies while the other two parts are electronics and signals related -things. - -I'm not a young hacker or a genius. My parents don't like computers. I didn't -live with a computer at home since I was a toddler. That didn't happen. - -Today I want to tell you my story. Not because it's awesome and you'll love it. -I want to tell you my story because it's **really** standard. I want you to see -that you can also contribute to Free Software. Anyone can. - -So, how did it all start? - -I started my university studies in 2009. The first year we had one semester of -C and the next one of C++. Not real programming classes, just introductory -stuff for the languages and computers. A couple of years later we had a -networking subject where I used Linux for the first time. The computers had -*Kubuntu* installed. At that time my laptop started to give me some trouble and -I installed *Kubuntu* in a dual boot and tested it. It was nice. - -Few time later the *Windows* partition failed again and I was comfortable -enough in *Kubuntu* to delete it and use only *Kubuntu*. It was easy. - -The second semester that year another subject had some focus on Linux because -it was a networks and tools subject and I really needed it. We learned to use a -terminal, some SQL and many things like that. Simple tools but they resulted to -be useful in the future. I was really surprised by the power of the terminal -and I studied a lot in my free time I finished the subject with honours just -because I was really interested on it. As I said, I'm not a genius, I was -interested. - -We had a subject about *Minix*, following Andrew Tannenbaum's *Operating -Systems: Desing and Implementation* book and *Minix* version 1, which gave us -the initial needed knowledge about Operating Systems at that time. That started -to give me some info about the ethical part of the free software and also -sparked more interest. - -Next year I had a couple of Operating Systems subjects (the theoretical one and -the practical one). The teacher was part of *KDE Spain*, and he talked about -free software in class. I was quite into it at that time. The practical part of -the subject was real software, we covered the contents of the book called -*Advanced Linux programming*[^1]. That was pure C development and we didn't -have a lot of knowledge on that. We just touched some C/C++ during the first -year and some assembly in a couple of subjects. It was really hard, but it was -really cool. - -We made a small shell. It was great! - -Final year[^2] of the university: I had to make the final project. - -I didn't know what to do so I contacted the teacher who was part of *KDE Spain* -and he mentored me. I installed a IRC client and started talking with the -people at *kde-telepathy* project. I wasn't used to that kind of collaborative -development. Heck, I wasn't used at any kind of development! But it was all -good, mostly thanks to the great people in the project (David, Diane, George, -Martin... *You* are awesome!). - -The project itself was a *KDE* application, *KDE-Telepathy*, a big one. Thanks -to heaven, my part of the project was quite separated so I could focus on my -piece. That taught me to search in a big codebase and focus on my part. Then I -had to code in C++ like in the real life, not like designed problems I've -worked on at the university, and I also had to read tons of documentation about -*Qt*, *KDE* and anything else. - -I started with the contribution that opened this post and I went on until I -renewed the whole interface. It wasn't great, but the code was finally merged -in the application some time later. - -Since then I could say I code almost everyday and I've been studying many -languages more but, at that time, I was relatively new to programming and -computers. - -With all this I mean: - -> If you are interested, try. Everything is going to be fine. You don't need to -> be a genius[^3]. - -[You can check the contribution -here](https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118256/diff/2#index_header). - -Love. - -Ekaitz - -[^1]: It's a great book, by the way. You can find it - [online](https://mentorembedded.github.io/advancedlinuxprogramming/). - -[^2]: When I studied, right before the [Bolognia - Process](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_Process), the university was 5 - years long for a Masters Degree and 3 for a Bachelor Degree. - -[^3]: But congratulations if you are, that way you'll learn faster and probably - have more reach if you want to. -- cgit v1.2.3