The 8 Essential Tools for Programmers

He left this one out: plain paper and pencil. lets you do plain text and it out saves your file!

Big whiteboard also does wonders for holding mental state.<p>In the office we've got some great big windows running down one wall that we use as scratchspace with special markers. Works a treat.

Was this a class presentation written for a CS 101 undergraduate audience at a community college?

in the same vein as gdb is strace, another lifesaver if you're on almost any nix box

"1. Plain Text"<p>I'm confused, is there another option?

He forgot to mention coffee and a computer. FAIL.