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@D--M yeah but I'm talking about first year students with zero programming experience. I think they should learn the basics first and how things work under the hood.
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@D--M idk if I agree with your analogy though; I wouldn't say the command line is a plastic knife. bash is incredibly powerful, I'd say it's more like nails/screws and an IDE is a house.
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donnico12697yI would say that command line is a chainsaw without safety measure on.
An ide is a robotic arm with attached a miniaturised version of the chainsaw.
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interesting conversation with the department head at my college (I'm a graduating senior): for incoming freshmen with no programming experience, do you think we should be teaching them to use a nice IDE, or start them with just a decent text editor and command line?
I was trying to convince the department head that we shouldn't show them an IDE until they've got the basics of command line down, and understand that a lot of what an IDE does is just abstraction of the command line.
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