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Weblog:   What would you put in a Computer Science Curriculum?
Subject:   A good development environment
Date:   2005-09-08 09:54:02
From:   MatthewDoar
The same question occurred to me while writing the upcoming O'Reilly book "Practical Development Environments" (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/practicalde). I didn't find anywhere that taught students what to look for in their software tools.


In addition to source control, I'd also suggest:


- build tools (make, Ant, ...)
- test environments (harnesses)
- bug tracking tools
- documentation environments
- managing releases


All pretty prosaic, but very irritating if they don't work well.


~Matt