COMP 2560 - Advice

Ryan's Advice

You may hear that MinGW or Cygwin shouldn't be used for this course. This is very important. Your code has a good chance of not working if you use those tools.

Ryan advises using Linux. WSL may not work well enough so it is a good idea to either dual boot linux or install a virtual machine.

Ryan suggests learning common Linux shells as soon as you can. Ryan suggests reading the Linux Command Line book.

Ryan suggests to use the info pages as well as the man pages. The difference is man pages are manual pages, they are highly technical. The info pages are designed to be more user friendly and walk the reader through best practices.