Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:45:41 -0500
From: "Howard V. Francis" <howard AT zeus DOT pc DOT edu>
Message-Id: <199811171845.NAA20001@zeus.pc.edu>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Facutly Resources for DGJCC
Cc: howard AT zeus DOT pc DOT edu
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Hi!
	(Everyone watch as I possible bite off more than I can chew!)

	I am a professor teaching C++ for the first time.  Our textbook
came with djgcc on it as well as an emacs based IDE called Lookout, which
does additional error checking and has additional class libraries written
by the author.  I found it very difficult to work with, and went searching
the net to see what other instructors had to say about using djgcc for
first year programming classes.

	I couldn't find a thing.

	So I thought I'd ask if there was a site on the net for the
exchange of ideas or solutions for others using gjgcc as their primary
compiler for C/C++ classes.  Things like "How to compile you source on
a floppy to an executable on a hard drive" and "How to link to author
provided classes and libraries with djgcc" were some of the things I would
have liked to have found.

	So, could any of you tell me:

1) Is there such a site with specific info about using djgcc in an
	academic environment?

2) If not, is there a need for such a site?

	If the answer to 1 is NO and 2 is YES, I MIGHT be interested
in hosting such a site.

Please e-mail me any thought/suggestions/hints any of you might have
about this type of web/ftp site.  You can post if you wish, but I only
get the weekly archive, so it would be a while before I see it.

Thanks everyone.  I'll let you all know the results of my request, and
the site I'll make if i have to make one.

Howard V. Francis -- francis AT pc DOT edu (or howard AT francis DOT pc DOT edu)
Assoc. Prof. of Math and Comp. Sci., Pikeville College

BTW, I eventually found RHIDE and then DFE which makes a lot of things
easier, but I spent more time telling my class how to compile their programs
(three different times) than I did telling them how to write programs for
too long a time.  We now use DFE almost exclusively, but I'm thinking
about using RHIDE for the long term.

thanks