← Back to team overview

elementary-dev-community team mailing list archive

Re: Vala guide for noobs?

 

Thanks a lot!

I will give another try to the Vala Tutorial and search around to
understand better some concepts. I'll try to hang around more at the irc
channel, and if I understand Vala really well, I'll make my own "Vala guide
to Noobs" ;D

Thanks again!

2012/4/7 Andrea Basso <voluntatefaber@xxxxxxxxx>

> Hi :)
>
> Vala is still a quite new language and tutorials are more directed to
> people who already know programming and just want to learn a new language.
> That's why there aren't tutorials for noobs.
>
> I think it all depends on what you already know... I don't know how Java
> is, but Python doesn't require you to do the declaration part, which
> instead is up to you in Vala. Thus, I'd suggest to read an introduction to
> a language with explicit declarations (like C, C++) and when you got how it
> works you can try reading the Vala tutorial. As David already said, it's
> very well written and if you don't understand single parts of it, you can
> always ask on irc :)
>
> Regards,
> Andrea Basso
>
>
> On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 17:31:26 +0200, Andre Santos <
> andre_luis_13@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  Hey guys!
>>
>> I'm a new developer, and I only did some translations 'till now, but I
>> want
>> to develop a app of my own. I have some experience with python, Java,
>> JavaScript and PHP, but nothing in Earth can help me understand the Vala
>> Tutorial at Gnome.org. So, I read some interviews of you guys at the
>> elementary site, so... Can you help me? ó__ò someone has a good newbie
>> tutorial to vala? Tried the google, youtube and even the sources of some
>> elementary apps, but it's like reading ancient greek to me.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>
> --
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~**elementary-dev-community<https://launchpad.net/%7Eelementary-dev-community>
> Post to     : elementary-dev-community@**lists.launchpad.net<elementary-dev-community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~**elementary-dev-community<https://launchpad.net/%7Eelementary-dev-community>
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/**ListHelp<https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp>
>

Follow ups

References