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* '''NOTE'''
** Thursday's class will be special, as we will have a guest speaker flying here to talk to you about the build. Please have your build done before Thursday so you can ask questions and understand what he's talking about.
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== Week 4 (Sept 24) - Navigating the Mozilla source tree ==
* Learning to be Lost Productively
** Adding to Mozilla is not like writing a program from scratch
** Leverage the existing code by reading, studying, and copying existing code
* Mozilla Source Code structure and style
** [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_Source_Code_Directory_Structure Mozilla directory structure]
** [http://mozilla.org/hacking/mozilla-style-guide.html Developer style guide]
** [http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/portable-cpp.html Portability Rules for C++]
* Searching for Code
** http://lxr.mozilla.org and http://mxr.mozilla.org
* How to Make Changes
** building with client.mk in mozilla/ vs. incremental builds
** Working with Patches
*** cvs diff and patch - [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Real_World_Mozilla_Incremental_Build_Lab Incremental Build Lab]
*** [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Creating_a_Patch Creating a Patch]
* '''Readings/Resources'''
** Reading: Chapter 11 (pages 379-397) of Diomidis Spinellis, ''Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective'', ISDN 0-201-79940-5 - [http://www.spinellis.gr/codereading/ online version]
* '''TODO'''
** Lab - Learning to use LXR/MXR effectively: [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Real_World_Mozilla_Source_Code_Reading_Lab Source Code Reading Lab]
** Practice doing incremental builds and applying patches
** Make a small change to some source code (more than just comments!) and prepare a patch file. Blog about your experiences.
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