[SoftTalker]

When I was a beginner in school we got "hello world" as an example, and were on our own from there.

Of course things were much simpler. You had an editor, and a compiler that you ran from the command line. At some point you would learn about Makefiles, but not before you would appreciate their value.

And there was no CI, no source control, no IDEs, no TDD frameworks.

I can see that throwing a brand new developer into something like Visual Studio would be overwhelming. Even I find it overwhelming after three decades. I still use emacs and a shell.