Where do i start for creating altcoin? Where do i start for creating a bitcoin altcoin? Like for changing block times, names, coin max, etc? I know what i want to change but I don't know where to change the code for the basic things mentioned above.
This post on bitcointalk is a good starting point.

The basic idea is to:


fork an existing coin
Customize some values (block reward, block time, hash algorithm, etc.)
Boot strap the coin by mining then encoding some checkpoints.