[comp.edu] need C/UN*X friendly UI for frosh

nelan@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (George Nelan) (06/07/90)

[I hope this is the appropriate news-group]

Howdy,

Believe it or not, I'm looking for some leads to anything that might be
able to solve some of the following problems in our CS dept...

We are currently teaching our frosh "C" on System V (tm) intel-micros.
It seems that the kiddies are having the expected problems one might expect
in this situation.  Now, the following observation just doesn't cut it:
hey, why not let 'em hack it out? - if they want in the kitchen that bad
let 'em learn to live with the heat.  

Well, not so simple.  The drop-out rate's just too high as it is.
So, we are looking for some sort of "user-friendly" UN*X-C tools.
I think we're going to get SDB, so that should help somewhat.  I guess what 
we're really looking for is something in the editor/compiler/documentation
user-friendly dept.  Perhaps something like the "context-sensitive editor"
that Borland's Turbo-C (tm) provides (but for System V (tm)).  I don't think
we mind if a commercial product can help (as long as a reasonable edu. 
discount is available).  We're also looking into GNU-stuff.

Anyway, if anyone can help us with this situation, we'd sure as heck
appreciate it.  Please email if you can.


DISCLAIMER #1:
I personally think we outta be teaching our frosh Haskell and Lucid.
But, hey, don't have a cow (it's still the twentieth century schizoid) man.

DISCLAIMER #2:
I didn't say that.  Really.  [Insert obligatory smilys]
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