Someone tell them its 2017 already. Saddest part was TA asking me to implement Binary Search in this TurboC++. Toughest 2 hours of my day :(

To be honest I would probably be able to use that just fine.
It is surprising to see that in 2017 though. Lack of funds? Stuck in a time warp? Extremely old staff who don't like change?

Which country is this college in?

Reliance on an ide is dangerous.

I did it too during my master degree first year. The next lab was about calling an assembly procedure in masm with some specific arguments from a turbo c program and retrieving the returned value. I feel your pain

@xsacha Well I won't say lack of funds because I was getting around 527 mbps downloading speed on LAN. It's just that these guys don't want to change. Some PCs have ubuntu installed while others are rotting with Win7. I'm from India :p

@iSwimInTheC why? Is there going to be an apocalyptic future where all the IDEs/smart editors will die?

@solocoder It means that true knowledge of a language is not there. If one is to rely that much on an IDE it may perhaps mean they don't _really_ understand what they are writing.

In other words, if one is using an IDE as a crutch and they lose the crutch that person should still be able to at least write something.

@iSwimInTheC I've never used autocomplete. Identation is something which gives me a lot of nightmares if not done properly. Hence IDE.

@iSwimInTheC @bhavitvyamalik not using an IDE/smart editors are the cause of people learning really bad practices like using short non self explanatory variable/function names, try to put everything in one file, having bad and non uniform indentation styles and much more.

@solocoder That's the fault of the programmer and their competency. Learning these habits early on is paramount. No IDE or Smart editor will save you from bad habits.