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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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    Sweet jesus no.
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    @D--M lol it wasn't a yes or no question??
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    @mjones44 no, im saying god no, thats not a good idea. You wouldn't ask a chef to use a plastic knife.
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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 would you call someone who's never cooked anything a "chef"?
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    @mjones44 okay, my point still stands, you dont get a first time cook a plastic knife. They'll just make shit.
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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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    I 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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