Practice both individually and as a team. Decide in advance how you will share the single terminal. If you can't find a bug within a few minutes, print out your code and let someone else have the workstation.
This has been my experience as well. My girlfriend was (at first) happy to have a non-MS office suite; she even preferred StarOffice's word processor to Word. Unfortunately, it would crash regularly, and she lost work on more than one occasion. Until Sun increases the stability of StarOffice, she will be forced to use Word instead.
Although I have the Linux version on my own machine, I haven't used it enough to comment on how often it crashes. (Who needs a word processor when you have LaTex?)
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I competed on the University of Alberta team in the '98 and '99 finals. Congratulations to this year's team!
Here's a few quick hints:
Good luck!
- Adam
This has been my experience as well. My girlfriend was (at first) happy to have a non-MS office suite; she even preferred StarOffice's word processor to Word. Unfortunately, it would crash regularly, and she lost work on more than one occasion. Until Sun increases the stability of StarOffice, she will be forced to use Word instead.
Although I have the Linux version on my own machine, I haven't used it enough to comment on how often it crashes. (Who needs a word processor when you have LaTex?)