Editing Start coding

{{stub}}
{{Start_coding}}

This is planned to be the starting page for a series on starting to code for free/libre opensource (FOSS) software projects.

Fell free to ask in the [https://community.osarch.org discussion forum] if you're ready to start learning - we can then start developing learning material together.

Start by visiting the [[:Category:Start_coding]] to see what pages we already have. There are also lots of resources on the internet. Here are some directly related to projects on our [[AEC Free Software directory]]:

* [[Sverchok]] is a node based programming environment for several uses. See links on it's page and ask for help in our [https://community.osarch.org discussion forum].
* [[Topologic]] is a node based programming environment for several uses. See links on it's page and ask for help in our [https://community.osarch.org discussion forum]
* [[FreeCAD]] has a page for their [https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Python_scripting_tutorial Python scripting tutorial]
* [[BlenderBIM Add-on]] can be scripted with Python. See for example: [[BlenderBIM_Add-on_code_examples]]
* [[IfcOpenShell]] can easily be used to interrogate [[Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)|IFC]] data, see the [[IfcOpenShell_code_examples]]

There are also [[Free_software_extensions_to_proprietary_software]] which can be leveraged by learning to code
* [[pyRevit]] is a Python based rapid development framework for adding functionality to the [[:Category:Proprietary software|Proprietary software]] [[Autodesk Revit]]: [https://www.notion.so/Create-Your-First-Command-2509b43e28bd498fba937f5c1be7f485 Create your first command]
* [[Dynamo]] is a node based programming environment for the [[:Category:Proprietary software|Proprietary software]] [[Autodesk Revit]]. [https://dynamobim.org/learn/ Learn Dynamo BIM]. New nodes can be written in Python and you can learn from the code many available [https://dynamopackages.com/ node packages].

That's a few things to get started with.