So You Want to Become a Programmer

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First Steps: Know Your Environment

  • ASCII
  • File extensions
  • Command-line
    • Commonalities between *nix and Windows shells
      • Spaces to separate arguments
      • PATH
    • Differences
      • Less need to modify PATH on *nix (/usr/bin and /usr/local/bin)
      • Running executables in current directory
    • Bridging the gap
      • Cygwin
  • Filesystem hierarchy
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