That's definitely true, but for most students there's hardly enough time in a single semester to master one method. If they're taking the class to actually learn to program instead of for required credits, then they'll continue to learn on their own after learning the basics in class.
Exactly. I realize I worded my initial comment a bit funky, but my point was that there's really no reason for bands to care that people download and share their videos. The story made it sound like a big deal that the band was letting people download their video for free.
why wouldn't a band want people to share their videos? I could understand if they were a primary source of revenue for the band, but as far as I know they're not. These days it's not like someone's going to go to thr trouble of ripping the audio out of a video stream to obtain an illegal copy of the song (since there are other, easier ways to do that), so all in all it's just free publicity.
Since you mentioned that they already have experience with VB or C++ (and I'm assuming when you say C++, you mean Visual Studio), just go with what they already know. If it were me, I'd stick them with an appropriate IDE for whatever language(s) you end up teaching. Speaking as a community college student myself, you should realize that unless you live in a predominantly technical area, most of your students students are going to be more comfortable learning with an IDE than with a blank vi screen. If you were teaching at a university, that might be different.
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That's definitely true, but for most students there's hardly enough time in a single semester to master one method. If they're taking the class to actually learn to program instead of for required credits, then they'll continue to learn on their own after learning the basics in class.
Exactly. I realize I worded my initial comment a bit funky, but my point was that there's really no reason for bands to care that people download and share their videos. The story made it sound like a big deal that the band was letting people download their video for free.
why wouldn't a band want people to share their videos? I could understand if they were a primary source of revenue for the band, but as far as I know they're not. These days it's not like someone's going to go to thr trouble of ripping the audio out of a video stream to obtain an illegal copy of the song (since there are other, easier ways to do that), so all in all it's just free publicity.
Since you mentioned that they already have experience with VB or C++ (and I'm assuming when you say C++, you mean Visual Studio), just go with what they already know. If it were me, I'd stick them with an appropriate IDE for whatever language(s) you end up teaching. Speaking as a community college student myself, you should realize that unless you live in a predominantly technical area, most of your students students are going to be more comfortable learning with an IDE than with a blank vi screen. If you were teaching at a university, that might be different.