http://www.adonweb.com/business/jeans.html At 04:54 PM 6/28/98 -0500, robert havoc pennington wrote: > >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. >> > >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 > > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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