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by karma_fountain
1692 days ago
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I agree and also feel like Students new to computer programming shouldn't be using Eclipse. They should be learning the fundamental concepts and their implementation, and having to learn a whole very complex IDE as well would just add to that difficulty. |
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if, while, and other programming concepts? I'd agree on that.
But the article suggests learning about files, file formats and other low level stuff.
So maybe they should first learn how a filesystem works, how it keeps internal consistency, and how the bytes are mapped into some physical storage. That's pretty fundamental too, right?
What we have here are "leaky abstractions"[1]. If the abstraction an IDE provides is not good enough that students can work with it without knowing about the lower layer, then the abstraction is leaky. And that is the problem. Not "should I teach them with an IDE or without".
[1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...