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Book does not understand its audience. "An editor is the program that you use to edit source code." No "advanced" programmer needs to be told that. OK, maybe
by massysett 11y ago
Book does not understand its audience. "An editor is the program that you use to edit source code." No "advanced" programmer needs to be told that. OK, maybe if all you know is an IDE, you don't know this...but the book says it's assumed that the reader can do basic command-line stuff. If you can do that you must know what an editor is.
Also I saw "GNU/Liux" in the front matter.
[edit] Next section started "A compiler turns human-readable source code into machine-readable object code that can actually run."
- acveilleux 11y agoI think this was the Windows -> Linux chapter. Almost no one who bought the book needed it but if your prior experience was something like Visual Studio 6.0 (current at that time) it helped to get some pointer. Back then newbies were liable to end up using pico... And that would not go so well.