Should Students Be Taught With or Without an IDE?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday May 20, 2006 @03:50PM from the why-the-zero-sum dept.

bblazer asks: "Beginning this next school year, there is a strong possibility I will be teaching an intro to Java and an intro to Python course at the local community college. I was wondering what the prevailing wisdom is when it comes to teaching languages - should students be taught with or without an IDE? I am a bit old school and wouldn't mind having them all use vi or emacs, but using a good IDE does have some advantages as well. I should note that the students I will be teaching will have had at least 1 semester of programming in VB or C++." Even though there is limited time in a semester, could a curriculum be constructed to accommodate both methods?

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Simplest environment possible by hackwrench · 2006-05-20 18:02 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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Re:Why hate MS? by Schraegstrichpunkt · 2006-05-20 22:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Didn't MS buy their IDE from some other company? I thought they did but I can't find the link.
On the other hand, you can at least thank them for not totally screwing up their IDE. Not like Internet Explorer, where the best version was probably version 2.0, or maybe 3.0, and it pretty much went downhill from there.

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