debuggers for academic use

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From: Carl Langford s
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:33

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We are running Dynix/ptx 1.3.0 in an academic environment. None of our
Computing courses feature a language as the main feature of the course, but
several of them require that the student learn a specific language (like
Pascal or Fortran in first year). We are using Sequent-supplied compilers
for both of these languages.  Our Computing instructors are finding that they 
are spending too much class and lab time explaining the use of the standard 
debugging tools (like pdbx), and most students (especially in first year) 
find it nearly impossible to work it out on their own. Is anyone aware of 
more intuitive debuggers that would be more suitable? I would also be
interested in hearing of programming environment packages, where a
compiler/editting facility/debugger where rolled into one package.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.


Carl Langford
Wilfrid Laurier University
Computing Services
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
clangfor@mach1.wlu.ca

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From: clangfor@mach1.wlu.ca (Carl Langford s)
Subject: debuggers for academic use
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:33:09 GMT
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