Questions about developing an altcoin

[jmintuck]

I am interested in developing or playing around with the source code of bitcoin. I had question regarding this. I am interested in only having a serious discussion about it, so made the thread self-moderated.

1. What source code do most of the big altcoins use to develop their coins ?  On researching this, it seems its litecoin, but is that what all the developers of coins even like ETH start off with, or do they also start off with bitcoins  ?

thank you!

[jmintuck]

You can start by not moderating this thread so you can get answer from many view,since you are thinking to build one it's always a good start to listen to many option and not only from those you want to read this,there will always be bashers on this kind of discussion

That has nothing to do with getting replies to this thread. Your post was only for your sig campaign and I have deleted it.

I would still appreciate serious replies about this.