AlconH

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You asked for advice, and I gave it. It's my personal opinion on how to progress when learning to code. As part of my job, I help mentor the new developers. Guess what! none of them jump straight into live projects! Anyone can get permission to do anything, doesn't mean that they should. Of course I'm going to assume that you have no experience in coding. You did not mention otherwise and people aren't just born with coding skills. Unless you tell me otherwise, I'm going to assume you have no experience in the field. I for one, do know a little thing or two about coding, since it's my job. I don't care whether or not you asked for personal opinions, it's a public discussions forum. You're going to run into opinions every now and then. I'm not going to continue in this debate. I hope you do well with the project, you seem to be making lots of friends with your friendly attitude. Have a nice day.

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There's nothing wrong with what everyone is asking here. In your original post, you made it sound like you told him you'd help with the project, and had no idea what to do. Everyone is correct in saying that is ridiculous. It's like heading over to an open source OS and asking if you can start creating their graphics drivers, despite not knowing how to do so. If you don't know how to code, then don't join a project. It's simple. Instead, start your own project and practice till you are good enough to help someone else. I myself am a programmer, and understand that everyone needs to start somewhere. But if you are new to it, this would not be the way to begin, especially if he'll be using the code you create. I've mentored some newbie developers at work, and I'll be honest, their code is shit, just as mine was when I first began. It would be extremely ridiculous to try and expect your first bit of coding experience to be used in a live project that will be made public. Stick to your own projects till you're ready.

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Ah right. Yeah, in that case, if you don't know what you're doing, don't try and help with someone else's project. It's not fair on them. Maybe you should try completing your own projects before taking on somebody else's.

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Anyone want to enlighten my as to what "Ticket Time" is?

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It's a false positive. There is no need to worry. Sometimes the makers of software obfuscate the code so that it can't be stolen or used without permission. This is also done by some viruses to avoid detection and this is why it is believed by some anti virus software to be malicious. It happens some times, nothing to worry about. I can personally say that I have inspected the code myself (sorry LMS :P) and there's nothing to hide.