From: Servando Garcia Date: 2007-02-23T23:01:29+09:00 Subject: Rant abouts IDE's

I apologize in advance if I offend anyone on this list. My post below is more a rant than a question.

Yes I agree that Komodo is a very nice IDE. When I am teaching programming one, I find that many of my students get so involved with using the lasted IDE ; that they lose sight of the project they should be working on. I suggest to my students to use either Vi or emacs to get the job done.

Beginning programmers should concentrate solely on the basics of programming. It seems to me, that the next generation of programmers expect the newest and latest IDE to write the code for them. More than once a student has come to me with simple nesting errors that was missed by the IDE they were using. Each of us here as been bitten at once by the dangling Else error using C++. One of my students debated with me over this very problem because the IDE he was using did not catch this error.

Come on Spring Break

Sam