AMDG On 07/02/2013 07:34 PM, Manmohit Rekhi wrote:

Am Manmohit Rekhi, a 2nd year computer engineering student at Nirma university, India. I have some programming experience in c and c++. Am interested in contributing to Boost, and would like to ask a few questions, to help me get started. I would be really grateful is, i could get the following questions answered. 1) Do i need to be familiar with the code of the standard c++ libraries, and if so, where do i start?

You should be familiar with using the standard library, but you don't need to know about the implementation.

2) What other per-requisites are there? 3) Where do i start reading the boost libraries(i mean which file to read first)?

Are there any areas that you're specifically interested in? Boost is a collection of many libraries. There's a list at http://www.boost.org/libs/libraries.htm. If you want to contribute to Boost, here are some things you can do: - Follow this mailing list and participate in the discussions. - Look at tickets at svn.boost.org and add test cases and/or patches. - Implement an algorithm and submit it for Boost.Algorithm. - If you have an idea for a new library, propose it on this list. In Christ, Steven Watanabe