COMP 2400 Software Tools

Goals: Understand

• CVS
  • Checking a file into a repository
  • Checking out a file from a repository
• TortoiseCVS
  • Puttin a Windows folder under CVS control
  • Adding a file to a folder that is under CVS control
  • Making Changes to file and committing them
  • Comparing two versions of a file and looking at the differences
  • Undoing changes if necessary

Useful commands/tips:

• Consciously apply all the tips/tricks you learned in this class, including
  • bash tricks(command recall, moving around dirs, etc)
  • vi tricks
  • Perl scripts 
  • Make files
  • find, pipe, grep, wget etc.

Useful Links:

• Perl Book 

Handouts:

• Project 4 

Online Tutorial:

• Perl introductory tutorial