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On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Dave Michelson wrote:

> 3. Programming with GNU Software (full day?)

My first question would be, who is this aimed at? Beginning
programmers? Experienced programmers not familiar with Unix?
Experienced programmers not familiar with GNU software? These make
a massive difference what the course can cover.

> GNU Emacs, the legendary text editor

I'm not sure this belongs in a programming course; Emacs may be
legendary, but that doesn't mean that the vast majority of programmers
like it, or even use it.

> The gdb debugger

You may want to cover a graphic front end for this as well.

> RCS, a tool for backing up and maintaining multiple versions of
> source files

RCS is of very limited utility; I'd suggest covering CVS. RCS is
not helpful for projects with more than one person working on them,
or more than one directory full of files.

cjs

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