Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about - experienced developers have a completely different viewpoint than first timers. Developers are used to the general ideas behind the tools, if not the specific details, so are much better equipped to deal with them. OTOH beginners (including some VERY smart people) often can waste a lot of time figuring out the basics of whatever tool you give them, simply because they don't understand the process enough to know what to look for. So you end up teaching the tool...
I would hazard a guess that some of your fellow students would have been surprised that you could run an editor like UE from a USB stick and also would have had no clue that it had functionality that would help someone write code. (or even that a an editor like UE existed at all...) Cheers, Vern Timothy Stahlhut wrote: > I just took an Java Class this Summer at IPFW. > And I used Ultra-Edit Text Editor(UE3) on an USB Memory Stick and it > worked for me. > I also installed Eclipse on the same USB Memory Stick from > http://www.easyeclipse.org/ > > I think I understood the error messages much better when using > Ultra-Edit than when using Eclipse. > > Note: The rest of the class used the JBuilder 2006 version or Eclipse, > but since IPFW was going to Eclipse I thought using JBuilder was an bad > long time choice. > > Note: I am a Software developer and the rest of class was mainly > beginners so my experience might not work for others. > > Tim S > > _______________________________________________ > Fwlug mailing list > [email protected] > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
