[reitanqild]

Nothing. There is nothing wrong with code generation in a production setting with "grown up" engineers who uses version control and knows the pitfalls.

The part in parenthesis is just a rant about education and how teachers use notepad and javac to teach Java.

So my point is the only thing students shouldn't use in an IDE is code generation.

[copperx]

But going from javac to Maven in CS1 would be insanely difficult; there are many prerequisites before one can use Maven. It may only work in top-tier schools.

[reitanqild]

I'd say quite the contrary:

If I had been given a zip with a basic pom file and the correct main and test directories I think I'd had a much simpler start.