10 May
2010
10 May
'10
5:17 p.m.
On Mon, 10 May 2010, Gene Buckle wrote:
a few simple demonstrations, and then using gets() and writing their own
atoi(), etc.
Turbo C is a good choice for students, but won't
teach much about the tool
chain. (make, link, lib, etc)
Yes
I required MY students to write some programs using any command-line
compiler, and some with any IDE.
I provided "Personal-C" (downloadable version of DeSmet) and Turbo-C (was
downloadable from Borland!) for those who didn't have any compilers
(such as GCC or Microsoft Max-Bloat C/C++) already.
Some students stuck with GCC, most stuck with Turbo-C.
Plus".
Both are pretty good for beginners, but neither prepares the
student for what will happen when scanf is fed unformatted/sloppy data.
Well for
that, you need _users_. :)