[Haifux] [W2L] Call for lecturer + "Linux guru"

[Vadim Eisenberg]

> Eclipse doesn't belong to the "right" tools, in my opinion.

 

Why Eclipse doesn't belong to the "right" tools ? My naïve understanding is that Eclipse is Emacs of the 21-st century – it is open source, customizable etc., similar to Emacs; in addition to being graphical. Maybe I miss something - what are the advantages of Emacs over Eclipse ?

 

Vadim

 

From: haifux-bounces at haifux.org [mailto:haifux-bounces at haifux.org] On Behalf Of Eli Billauer
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 9:14 PM
To: Tzafrir Cohen
Cc: Haifa Linux Club
Subject: Re: [Haifux] [W2L] Call for lecturer + "Linux guru"

 

OK, I think this is a good time to express my view regarding the "Development tools" lecture. It's purpose, as I see it, is to give the students a nice start with the "right" tools for developing code, as needed for their exercises. If their experience is good, they'll stay. If not, they'll soon use the alternatives.

 

If you want to give a lecture about any other subject, as a Stay-in-Linux or mainstream lecture, by all means come forward. But let's try to get some focus on the initial lecture.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but a student is not likely to go beyond a project which runs on a single platform, having a few source files, and with no more than two or three persons involved. Hence autotools are irrelevant, and so are version control systems. Tarballing all sources, and sending to your partner with comments, is as much version control as you need in these situations.

 

Eclipse doesn't belong to the "right" tools, in my opinion.

 

I would therefore set the following goals to a CS development tools intro lecture:

 

1. Being able to compile the sources (objects and executable), including math libraries and such, with reasonable flags (optimization, debug info, -Wall etc) with gcc.

2. Using make properly. No crazy tricks, just getting the actions and dependencies right.

3. Using vi/vim/emacs (show both, explain why both are good). I wouldn't bother showing many keystrokes, just demonstrating and pointing at where you can get a good reference for them.

4. Use ddd for debugging. It's worth mentioning that it's based upon gdb, and that gdb commands can be given directly (demonstrate?) but using gdb to start with is not convincing at all.

 

More is less. My $.02.

 

   Eli

 

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 05:14:50PM +0200, boazg wrote:
  

as a side note, a seperate lecture on git for CS students, and how to use it
with t2 would be a good idea.
    

 
Why git?
 
While I think git is a handy tool, did you have in mind "developement
tools"?
 
Other tools that come in mind:
 
gcc
make
vi / vim
gdb
autotools
emacs
kdevelop
eclipse
 
(Just a list of tools from the top of my head, I don't intend to start a
flame war on the exact content of a non-existing lecture)
 
  






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