By Zed A. Shaw

I Put Up A Quick Fossil For PTHW

I finally got a fossil repository/wiki up for people who want to help writing exercises. It's just up temporarily until I can get the full site going, but gotta strike while the Iron is hot.

You can go to:

http://zedshaw.com:8080/home

For now and after logging in as anonymous you should be able to edit the Proposed Exercises wiki page. Make sure you read the home page and the Example Exercise to get an idea of what it's all about.

If you go grab fossil you can also grab the repository with:

fossil clone http://zedshaw.com:8080/

But I'd advise against that until I get the official site up and running. You'll have to do it again anyway.

Once I have the companion site up I'll come up with a plan for people to become contributors to the book's source. It'll probably involve you having to write 1 accepted exercise and teach it to one person who vouches for you as being a good teacher. Then I'll add you to the commiters list and let you push to the source.

Let me know if you have problems.

Oh, and no, I will not use your favorite SCM/wiki/bug tracker. Fossil is perfect for this project. It's probably the best tool for a beginning programmer because it contains all the things a good software engineer should be using. Wiki, bug tracking, distributed revision control. It's cross platform, has an html interface, and just works.