[TOS] Textbook update: "Building the code" draft...

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

...is mostly complete:

http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Building_the_Code

The goal is to introduce students to a typical build process.  The 
problem, of course, is that builds have some fundamental similarities, but 
every piece of software has its own idiosyncracies, and it's difficult to 
plan for all of them.

The chapter basically walks through a build of Freeciv.  It's instructive, 
it's fun, and at the end, the student has a game to play, w00t.

The goal of the chapter is really to prepare the students for building the 
code in whatever open source project they've selected, and exercises 
should at this point begin to focus on the particular projects.

Feedback and patches gratefully accepted.

Next chapter on the plate for me: "Debugging the Code".

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