Okay, I'll admit....

Programming on a Mac is quite nice.  This year we got a brand new Mac lab (36 iMacs) for our Computer Science classes at Skyline.  Students love them.  They're built for programming.  Their ability for digital media integration is outstanding.  One of my students is currently working on programming the iSight cams to implement facial recognition. 

Best thing yet:  Haven't had to reboot any of these Macs during class.  :-)

Mac dev vs. Linux dev

I'm so comfortable on Linux, so adjusting to a Mac has been...well, surprisingly easy overall.

Ran into a snag today, however, when I tried to use gcc to compile a simple C program and there were permission problems.  I'm not EXACTLY sure how I solved it, but basically I had to copy a whole directly and put it elsewhere:

usr/include

had to be copied to

usr/local/include

As nice as Macs are, this reminds me of how a default Ubuntu installation does not contain the necessary C header files.  Not a big problem by any means, but it will be good to document it here for when I have to set up a Mac lab for programming classes.