You'll be doing them more of a favor if you don't go anywhere near an IDE. If you teach them without the IDE, they will learn what's really going on; once they come into contact with an IDE, they'll figure out where the buttons are soon enough, and be on their way. If you teach them with the IDE, then they'll be totally lost the day they have to code without one. They'll take a lot more away from the class by learning what the devil's really going on, than if it's masked behind the IDE.
It's very analogous to systems administration. Put a unix admin on a windows box, and they'll figure it out pretty quick. Try to put a windows admin on a unix box, and they're totally lost.
It's a hacker's paradise waiting to happen. Will it really be too long before someone figures out a security hole, knocks out any watchdog/tripwire services, and then they 0wn the box? Not to say automation's bad- far from it. However, really good sysadmins stay in close touch with their systems, not turn the key and walk away.
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You'll be doing them more of a favor if you don't go anywhere near an IDE. If you teach them without the IDE, they will learn what's really going on; once they come into contact with an IDE, they'll figure out where the buttons are soon enough, and be on their way. If you teach them with the IDE, then they'll be totally lost the day they have to code without one. They'll take a lot more away from the class by learning what the devil's really going on, than if it's masked behind the IDE. It's very analogous to systems administration. Put a unix admin on a windows box, and they'll figure it out pretty quick. Try to put a windows admin on a unix box, and they're totally lost.
Einstein was a patent clerk.
It's a hacker's paradise waiting to happen. Will it really be too long before someone figures out a security hole, knocks out any watchdog/tripwire services, and then they 0wn the box? Not to say automation's bad- far from it. However, really good sysadmins stay in close touch with their systems, not turn the key and walk away.