GCC for 1st sem FOC lab

CSMIT which has been actively promoting Free Software for several years wondered few months back – “Why the 1st year students are supposed to use Turbo C compiler for practising C? Is it not pathetic to use a very old compiler that does not conforms to ANSI C standards??”. Yes, it is. So we jumped into action ;-)

In the first meeting of CSMIT with the staff members of Computer Centre, we brought this issue and our proposal to use GCC for 1st semester itself was readily accepted, thanks to Ms.Catherine Bina, Head, Computer Centre :-) After first years entered into the college we came up with the issue again – this time just to remind. As the C programming starts after a few weeks according to the syllabus, we had to wait some more time.

In spite of the general hesitation with the mindset that GNU/Linux platform will not be user-friendly, our strong stand and continuous efforts made it possible at last, with the support from the Head. Yes, first semester FOC lab uses GCC for practising C programming! :-) As we strongly believed, the students didn’t find it any difficult or strange. In fact most of them were interested to get into something new. Very happy to feel the change!!

CSMIT will keep rocking forever!