Help programming from step 1?

[railrunner112]

Hello, Jordy Smeets from the Netherlands.

I have a rather big question,
I want to start programming and sinces OR is open source and in development I would like to experiment around with it. Obviously randomly changing stuff wil not be quite a good start so ofcourse would I like to know where to start, which course could I use to understand the language a bit better. I know it is not easy, I have done a bit of HTML and learning that also took alot of time, but summer vacation is on it's way and I need a hobby to keep me from bored (outside of my museum railroad job ofcourse, that never gets boring.)

So where to start? someone willing to help me or give me a push in the right way?

Thanks for the time and good regards,

Jordy Smeets

[baldwin]

http://openrails.org/contribute/developing-code/ has several sub sections which give you information on what you need to install and where to get the raw code from. You will need to learn C# at present. I suggest you have a read through that page and take it from there.

We have a pretty good OR forum at Elvas Tower where most of the current code writers hang out should you have any questions.

[railrunner112]

Thanks I will try that and make a account on Elvas tower. I want to practic on modifing the smoke from steam engines, as that is quite likely the most interesting and somewhat difficult part.