> In fact, any solution you can mention can be made to work, and will have > someone saying it's the best way ever. Over the years I've tried a fair > number of them, and what I'm talking about is the tension between time > spent on the actual concepts and code (which are on the AP exam) and > time spent in managing all the other stuff.
As I recall the AP computer science exam has certain criteria they want covered, and syntax and concepts are crucial. Time taken to learn the IDE is time taken from learning the concepts on the AP exam. This seems like a reasonably sensible perspective on which to judge an IDE. > I'm not really looking for a wonderful suggestion here - I was just > explaining that taking time to master a worthwhile tool (and that > includes any text editor beyond notepad) is also time not spent learning > other things. What then? You want validation for your feelings of futility? Step 1) http://xkcd.com/463/ Step 2) Notice the sense of euphoria when you realize there are way worse people out there writing software than you. --R _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
