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7.10 Use of SDCC in Education</A>
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In short: <I>highly</I> encouraged<A NAME="tex2html120"
  HREF="footnode.html#foot6089"><SUP>7.3</SUP></A>. If your rationales are to:

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<LI>give students a chance to understand the <I>complete</I> steps of
code generation
</LI>
<LI>have a curriculum that can be extended for years. Then you could use
an fpga board as target and your curriculum will seamlessly extend
from logic synthesis (http://www.opencores.org <TT><A NAME="tex2html121"
  HREF="opencores.org">opencores.org</A></TT>,
Oregano <TT><A NAME="tex2html122"
  HREF="http://www.oregano.at/ip/ip01.htm">http://www.oregano.at/ip/ip01.htm</A></TT>), over assembly programming,
to C to FPGA compilers (FPGAC <TT><A NAME="tex2html123"
  HREF="http://sf.net/projects/fpgac">http://sf.net/projects/fpgac</A></TT>)
and to C.
</LI>
<LI>be able to insert excursions about skills like using a revision control
system, submitting/applying patches, using a type-setting (as opposed
to word-processing) engine LYX/L<SUP><SMALL>A</SMALL></SUP>T<SMALL>E</SMALL>X, using SourceForge <TT><A NAME="tex2html124"
  HREF="http://www.sf.net">http://www.sf.net</A></TT>,
following some netiquette <TT><A NAME="tex2html125"
  HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette</A></TT>,
understanding BSD/LGPL/GPL/Proprietary licensing, growth models of
Open Source Software, CPU simulation, compiler regression tests<A NAME="3961"></A>.

<BR>
And if there should be a shortage of ideas then you can always
point students to the ever-growing feature request list <TT><A NAME="tex2html126"
  HREF="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=599&amp;atid=350599">http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=599&amp;atid=350599</A></TT>.
</LI>
<LI>not tie students to a specific host platform and instead allow them
to use a host platform of <I>their</I> choice (among them Alpha, i386,
i386_64, Mac OS X, Mips, Sparc, Windows and eventually OLPC <TT><A NAME="tex2html127"
  HREF="http://www.laptop.org">http://www.laptop.org</A></TT>)
</LI>
<LI>not encourage students to use illegal copies of educational software
</LI>
<LI>be immune to licensing/availability/price changes of the chosen tool
chain
</LI>
<LI>be able to change to a new target platform without having to adopt
a new tool chain
</LI>
<LI>have complete control over and insight into the tool chain
</LI>
<LI>make your students aware about the pros and cons of open source software
development
</LI>
<LI>give back to the public as you are probably at least partially publicly
funded
</LI>
<LI>give students a chance to publicly prove their skills and to possibly
see a world wide impact
</LI>
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then SDCC is probably among the first choices. Well, probably SDCC
might be the only choice.

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