Students working in EDF should in general be competent at using the following tools. Highly recommended: ​https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

• Linux
  • The bash shell, including simple scripting
  • An editor (vim or emacs preferred, others OK if you really know how to use them)
  • Files, directories, devices
  • find, grep, sort, head, tail...
  • pipelines "|" and redirection "<" and ">" (and "|&", ">&" too!)

• Basic programming
  • An editor (above)
  • make
  • C++
    • Building a project from multiple source files
    • Creating and maintaining a Makefile
    • gprof (profiler) and gdb (debugger)
  • Creating and maintaining function libraries