Uday Khedker <u...@cse.iitb.ac.in> wrote: > >I have been trying to do my stuff for a few years. We conduct a >programme called "Essential Abstractions in GCC" which is aimed at >taking a novice to a level from where she can do independent >experimentation with GCC internals. > >I put together a bunch of teaching assistants (about 15 of them) for >about 60 participants. Carefully designed programming assignments are >an >integral part of the training. The program ends with us summarizing the >essential abstractions in 17 or 18 pictures with the hope that if one >can understand the concepts represented by the pictures, one can walk >the maze of the GCC code. > >You can find the details of the latest offering at >http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/grc/gcc-workshop-12/. > >I would like to take this training program to the next level but so >long >it remains my personal baby, my funding agency does not feel that I >have >accomplished much because they feel that if my program has any merit, >the GCC community would adopt it :-(
Can you hint at what they would consider adopting it? I suppose it is not simply linking to it from the wiki or the website? Richard. >Uday. > >Aldy Hernandez wrote, On Wednesday 23 January 2013 08:07 PM: >> Uday Khedker<u...@cse.iitb.ac.in> writes: >> >>> I think we need to come out of the "documentation" mindset. No >amount >>> of conventional documentation is going to help. What we need is a >>> training material that included well defined assignments. >> FWIW, I initially learned GCC by an internal training program Jeff >Law >> devised over a decade ago (*). So perhaps there is some truth to the >above >> statement. >> >> Of course, it didn't hurt that I had a cadre of good and patient >> maintainers willing to answer questions. >> >> [Before anybody asks, the training program is probably no longer >> relevant. So no fair bugging Jeff about it :)]. >> >> But anyways, that's just me. Different folk learn differently. >> >> Aldy >> >> (*) I think Alex Oliva was also a student of the Law training program >:).
