Introduction to Tools and Techniques in Computer Science

Contents:

Setup, writing structured text, and file management

Remote connections and command-line file management

Compiling and running code, version control

Advanced version control, project management

Advanced shell usage

Digital notebooks and getting help

Debugging (strategies and usage)

Command-line environment

Shell scripting

Build systems and dependency management

Containers, virtual machines, and “The Cloud ™”

Running your own Linux system

Introduction to Tools and Techniques in Computer Science

Franklin Bristow

Welcome to Introduction to Tools and Techniques in Computer Science. This is an introductory lab-based course.

Every Computer Scientist needs to make use of an expansive set of modern computing tools and techniques. This course provides a hands-on experiential introduction to working with the tools and techniques we use every day to design, develop, analyze, and maintain software.

You can find the GitHub repository for this textbook here: https://github.com/University-of-Manitoba-Computer-Science/tools-n-techniques

Please feel free to report any issues you find with the book (technical or otherwise!).