learning to use open source software

Question

Hi there

Do you know any book, blog, tutorial which explains in a detailed way the use of some open source projects? Maybe you have written such a tutorial, example of open source libraries and your final product is great for a beginner to understand it.

I'm in the learning stage of OOP and I really need to learn by examples. I'll like to find some text which explains the use of some Open source software/libraries and the good practices. Beign honestly i feel scared to use the open source libs as i wish/think at this moment. I feel like as I still write procedural code and not OOP.

Do you know such tutorials, links, blogs, stories, pages?

many thanks!

PS: I know C and PHP. I can't say that I know C++ yet, and that's why I need your help.

Answer 1

Many Open source projects has their own documentation pages. so if you are willing to use a library or a project you can refer those documentations. or else you want to get involve in any open source projects read these things.

http://www.kegel.com/academy/opensource.html http://jakarta.apache.org/site/understandingopensource.html

Answer 2

Start with one of the most popular StackOverflow questions.

Then head over to the FLOSS Manuals site for manuals about all sorts of open-source tools.

Still have questions, use the StackOverflow search box liberally!

Enjoy!