Re: Programming Tutorial
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At 04:54 PM 6/28/98 -0500, robert havoc pennington wrote:
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>On 28 Jun 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
>> It seems that I and David Teague will collaborate on a
>> programming chapter for the tutorial. We're a little unsure
>> as to what should be covered.
>>
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>What I was thinking was something targetted toward students taking CS-101
>or the like; sort of, how to use Emacs/gcc/eg++/gdb as a programming
>environment for C and C++. Maybe also mention Guile and Hugs, since Scheme
>and Haskell are also popular CS languages.
>
>However, there are many other possible audiences, including professional
>programmers wanting to move to Linux; so there's no need to limit it to
>(or even include) the student-oriented stuff. Whatever you guys think will
>be interesting, useful, or fun to write.
>
>I'd try to avoid describing the POSIX API, how to program, or anything
>like that; there are good books on those topics, and this is only a
>chapter. You want to cover how to get started programming on Linux; what
>packages are needed, pitfalls, compiler flags, maybe deal with
>automake/autoconf (I used automake for my CS homework assignments with
>good results). You could perhaps go through a Hello World type example,
>starting with a couple of bugs which you find using gdb. Assume there's an
>intro to Emacs chapter already, and cover only the programming aspects of
>Emacs.
>
>If you want to write some kind of appendix as well that would be fine - it
>can go at the end of the book, and wouldn't have to be in a tutorial
>format.
>
>Feel free to use your judgment and disregard any of this - lots of issues
>will become apparent as you write that won't be clear to any of us
>speculating on the list.
>
>Havoc
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