I know C# and I like to switch between systems and use Linux. Can I use C# to build applications that will natively work on Linux? What should I do to make use of my knowledge of C# in a Linux system?
Note that I'm specialized in Unity3D, but I still want to create Linux applications using C#.
Although I am not a professional programmer, I have written a program or two. Yet, nowadays every engineer and scientist learns to program a bit as well, and as such I am used to writing programs in Python, C and MATLAB. Now I want to give back a bit to Ubuntu and its great folks and fix a bug!
I had a look at the list of the bitesize campaign and had to find that most of them are not that easy for me to fix as I suspect they require a lot of time to get into the matter, and I do not have that. Still I discovered this one and it looks manageable and like a cool feature to me.
As I have never written a patch or released a program to the wild before though, I have no idea where to start. What should be my first step to tackle that problem?
Bottom line: Where and how do I start fixing that guy?
I have been developing in the windows space with Visual Studio for a while now with work, but I have also been using Ubuntu for a while and am keen to get into some software development for linux.
I should also note. I am not looking for .NET and I am aware of mono. I am also familiar with c++ development and some python, so the language isn't so much relevant as the "all in one" aspect.
I was interested to know if there is a useful all in one code/debug/design(gui) IDE similar to something like Visual Studio but for linux?
As part of my job as a web developer, I spend an amount of time doing UI prototypes to show the client. It's a pain in the behind but sometimes it has to be done.
I've seen Shuttleworth (and the design team) pump out images like this:
That's made by something called Balsamiq Mockups... Something that balances on top of Adobe Air (yack!) and costs $79.
I've tried it but it kept falling over. I think it had something to do with Air not the app itself. My point is if I'm paying out for something, I want it to be native.
Do you know of any URLs for PPAs of Google's Go Language?