var fDesc=new Array(); fDesc[0] = "CS1300 tools is a software that helps students learn informatics. The package includes:

- Minimalist GNU Windows 32 Tools with
- g (Version 3.3.1),
- gdb (Version 5.2.1),
- make (Version 3.8),
- win32 api library (Version 2.5),
- and more from bintools (2.13.90) and elsewhere: addr2line, ar, as, awk, bison, c , c filt, cc, cmp, dlltool, echo, ed, egrep, ex, fgrep, flex, flex , g , gasp, gawk, gcc, gcov, gdb, genclass, gperf, gprof, grep, gunzip, gzip, ld, m4, make, nm, objcopy, objdump, protoize, ranlib, red, rm, sed, size, strings, string, tail, tar, unprotoize, wc, windres, zcat.
- Windows Emacs editor
- Elvis vi editor
- BGI graphics library for the Gnu compiler

It provides a series of exercises and tests for the students:

- Exercise 1: GNU Emacs and G
- Exercise 2: The GDB Debugger
- Exercise 3: Loops and the BGI Graphics
- Exercise 4: More about Program Design and Functions
- Exercise 5: Input and Output from Files
- Exercise 6: The Make Facility"; function tShowHide(id, show) { var s = document.getElementById("desc"); if ((s.innerHTML.length<=212 || show==1) && show!=2) { s.innerHTML = fDesc[id]; if (document.getElementById('m1')) document.getElementById('m1').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('m2')) document.getElementById('m2').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('more_txt')) document.getElementById('more_txt').style.display='inline'; } else { s.innerHTML = ''; } }