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Utilities, software or otherwise, used for a better academic life

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Is it acceptable to require a student to use the supervisor's preferred software/tools?

Fred Brooks says in The Mythical Man-Month "A good craftsman is known by his tools" So if the student has the time, and skill you should force him to use the tools of the trade. … Obviously use judgment the goal is for him to write the thesis not to master tools, so if the deadline is approaching then focus on the product not the tools. …
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How to deploy a StackExchange-style question and answer site for a university subject?

I think you should take a look at Discourse. It is by Jeff Attwood the other coinventor of Stack Overflow. In his blog he has mentioned all the design decisions that went into its development. http: …
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