Re: [Dev-C++] Opinion about IDE Develpment Tools for EE

Per Westermark napsal(a):
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Michal Molhanec wrote:
> 
>> André Macário Barros napsal(a):
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>>>    I present to you this scenario because of the following:
>>> In the early 80´s, the old 2-diskettes Turbo C was used in
>>> EE to develop a lot of systems. BCC (Borland C++) v5&6 provides
>> Do you mean Borland C++ Builder 5 & 6 ? Borland C++ was name for a
>> completely different product.
> 
> No, I really think he means the original Borland C++, i.e. the successor
> to the Turbo C/C++ since the courses spends a large amount of time on
> development of command-line tools. Builder puts it's weight on
> development of GUI applications.

But André mentions that they are using VCL. So it must be Borland C++ 
Builder because original Borland C++ does not support it, just OWL and 
MFC. Also Borland C++ 6 doesn't exists, last was 5.5.

Also two of those four years they are teaching windows apps.

>>> and, if you are interested to talk about this, here are my
>>> questions:
>>>    a) In the showed scenario how would you struct the
>>>       4-year disciplines?
>> If I haven't to stick with ANSI-C, I would probably go with .Net/C#, but
>> I understand your motivation. However the problem is that nobody uses
>> ANSI-C for GUI development, nor there is pure ANSI-C IDE for GUI
>> applications.
> 
> .Net/C# are not suitable tools when the students are expected to develop
> embedded applications. How many microcontrollers do you think have a .NET
> support library? The processor may possibly have 1kB .. 512kB of program
> memory, and 16 byte .. 64kB of RAM.

yes, but as I understand the course description the target of it is to 
write standard PC apps which will through USB or another port comunicate 
with external systems