Blog Post #4 - gstapes/gstapes.github.io GitHub Wiki

In this chapter, it mentions 7 main topics which are "The Power of Plain Text, Shell Games, Power Editing, Source Code Control, Debugging, Text Manipulation, and Code Generators". Some of it was givens such as Plain text and debugging. Command lines in shell games were nothing completely new, but there were small tips in there such as GUI alternatives. Power editing as a whole was a chapter where I felt confused about why it was in this section/chapter of the text. Source code control is something that is taught mostly every day in every Computer Science class, but rightly so because it is an important topic. Debugging is an object that some people have a problem with, but I do think that this topic needed to come sooner in the book as talking about panicking is not really something that many collegiate upperclassmen really do about bugs in their code. The flow goes directly into text manipulation which is something that is new but also confusing just as a topic. The topic just stated that you can use languages to get algorithms done quickly. Code generators are just part of the actual built-ins such as Intellij, so nothing that is really needed to be known as a coder.