// dispatch), which makes it possible to construct abstractions that carry no run-time
// cost. This is combined with the comfort of high-level functional languages and guaranteed
// safety (as in, the program will not crash). The vast majority of existing
-// languages sacrificies one of these goals for the other. In particular, the
+// languages sacrifices one of these goals for the other. In particular, the
// first requirement rules out a garbage collector: Rust can run "bare metal".
// In fact, Rust rules out more classes of bugs than languages that achieve safety
// with a GC: Besides dangling pointers and double-free, Rust also prevents issues
// This will also install `cargo`, the tool responsible for building rust projects (or *crates*).
// Next, fetch the Rust-101 source code from the [git repository](http://www.ralfj.de/git/rust-101.git)
-// (also available [on GitHub](https://github.com/RalfJung/rust-101), and as [zip archive](https://github.com/RalfJung/rust-101/archive/master.zip)).
+// (also available [on GitHub](https://github.com/RalfJung/rust-101), and as a
+// [zip archive](https://github.com/RalfJung/rust-101/archive/master.zip) in case you don't have git installed).
+//
// There is a workspace prepared for you in the `workspace` folder. I suggest you copy this
// folder somewhere else - that will make it much easier to later update the course without
// overwriting your changes. Try `cargo build` in that new folder to check that compiling your workspace succeeds.
// (You can also execute it with `cargo run`, but you'll need to do some work before this will succeed.)
//
-// If you later want to update the course, do `git pull` (or re-download the tip archive).
+// If you later want to update the course, do `git pull` (or re-download the zip archive).
// Then copy the files from `workspace/src/` to your workspace that you did not yet work on. (Of course you can also
// copy the rest, but that would replace all your hard work by the original files with all the holes!)