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Re: MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools

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That's it! Let me know how you like it. It's my first foray into writing books. Walking the line between utility and breadth is tough.

As a computer Science graduate with no experience doing images that section alone was worth getting the book for me. I plan on using at as encyclopaedia for future uses. I am happy you had compatibility in mind as I am not super fussed on which operating system I use. I would suggest adding a virtual desktop section as that has been the biggest gamechanger for me ( I use windows 10s with virtual desktop enhancer) I d…

Glad that was useful, thanks for saying so! Great idea on virtual desktops.

Re: MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools

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The equivalent UCLA course is CS35L: Software Construction Laboratory ( https://web.cs.ucla.edu/classes/winter19/cs35L/ ). It's taught by Paul Eggert (big open source/coreutils/emacs contributor + author of diff/sort).

Damn I wish that class was open access.

Re: MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools

#83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's it! Let me know how you like it. It's my first foray into writing books. Walking the line between utility and breadth is tough.

As a computer Science graduate with no experience doing images that section alone was worth getting the book for me. I plan on using at as encyclopaedia for future uses. I am happy you had compatibility in mind as I am not super fussed on which operating system I use. I would suggest adding a virtual desktop section as that has been the biggest gamechanger for me ( I use windows 10s with virtual desktop enhancer) I d…

I'm pretty confident in claiming macOS and many Linux desktop environments natively support virtual desktops. It's really only Windows that doesn't.
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