07. Software Development

Interactive lecture

Go through this lecture as short chapters, with simulators (compilation, make, git), quizzes and flashcards.

You will learn

the difference between compiled, interpreted and bytecode (hybrid) languages
what graphical code editors (VS Code / VSCodium, Zed) and IDEs offer
what a language server (LSP) and a debugger are, and how they turn an editor into an IDE
how to debug a program with gdb
the steps of the C compilation pipeline: preprocessor, compiler, assembler and linker (gcc -E, -S, -c)
how to write a Makefile, and where the header (.h) dependencies go
what git is, what commits and branches are, the difference between git commit and git push, and the basic git commands