Can I help? / How can I help?

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Hi, I'm an aspiring programmer with a lot of time and nothing to do (summer and no job). BZFlag was a game I used to play 3-4 years ago, and now I'd love to help out.

I am a rising senior in high school, but I have been programming since 7th grade. Although, I am self taught and have not been very serious.
I have no coding experience in any projects as large as this, but I have done my own smaller projects.
Some of my more notable projects include:
My own version of Tetris using the sprite engine of DirectDraw 7 and C++.
A bot that automated some internet processes using C#.

If I can help, where do I start? I imagine I'd probably have to familiarize myself with some of code (hopefully not all of it!), learn about SVNs, compile the code, etc. After I do some of that, how can I help?

Thanks.

[Spazzy McGee]

I'm pretty sure your help would be greatly appreciated. The developers hang out mostly on the development IRC channel #bzflag on irc.freenode.net

Have a chat with them, and see what they think.