If your teaching application design fundamentals and object oriented architecture, use the IDE- language specifics will just slow the students down.
If you're teaching coding techniques and overall programming efficiency and style, don't use the IDE. That's where knowledge of all the little language tricks is important and you want to force students to dig more into what the langauge has to offer to solve problems and write more efficient code.
Umm.... Before we start castigating M$ for human rights violations, perhaps we Linux aficianados should look a little closer to home... Does anyone *really* think that the Communist Chinese government isn't at least going to *try* putting hooks into their own Linux distro to keep track of their citizens political habits? Perhaps this is an opportunity for Open Source-as a community, we should press for independent review of government distros of free software to do a free speech/privacy check on it.
I am an unapologetic capitalist and as Republican as they get, but this guy's arrest is unbelievably unjust. At the core of the "freedom to innovate" is the freedom of speech. Without it, not only does liberty suffer, so does the ability to make money.
If this poor guy weren't in jail, I'd almost hope that he would be prosecuted so that the Supreme Court would ultimately stike down this crazy law as unconstitutional.
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If your teaching application design fundamentals and object oriented architecture, use the IDE- language specifics will just slow the students down.
If you're teaching coding techniques and overall programming efficiency and style, don't use the IDE. That's where knowledge of all the little language tricks is important and you want to force students to dig more into what the langauge has to offer to solve problems and write more efficient code.
Umm.... Before we start castigating M$ for human rights violations, perhaps we Linux aficianados should look a little closer to home... Does anyone *really* think that the Communist Chinese government isn't at least going to *try* putting hooks into their own Linux distro to keep track of their citizens political habits?
Perhaps this is an opportunity for Open Source-as a community, we should press for independent review of government distros of free software to do a free speech/privacy check on it.
I am an unapologetic capitalist and as Republican as they get, but this guy's arrest is unbelievably unjust. At the core of the "freedom to innovate" is the freedom of speech. Without it, not only does liberty suffer, so does the ability to make money. If this poor guy weren't in jail, I'd almost hope that he would be prosecuted so that the Supreme Court would ultimately stike down this crazy law as unconstitutional.