Well, I am not from CS or IT, but here is my 2 paise. On 9/14/07, Roshan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > List, > > Terms used: > IDE: Integrated Development Environment > CS: Computer Science > IT: Information Technology > > I was thinking about this for sometime now, and > realized, that there wasn't any emphasis on the > "tools" being used in courses (graduate, postgraduate) > (CS and IT). > > They may not be of utmost importance, but I'll like to > know your opinions and choices. > > 1. Most of the courses use Windows as their OS and > have Notepad as the default text editor used for > programming languages such as Java etc.
Really? I've seen people use VC++ whenever available. Is eclipse similarly popular? > Even for HTML, CSS etc, notepad remains the default > text editor. Notepad (default) doesn't have any syntax > highlighting or other options. Surprisingly, students > are told they learn better, if they are not equipped > with these. (Text editor features) > I wonder, programmers under *nix, have Konsole ( ;) ) > based text editors as well as GUI text editors (Just > to differentiate for the sake of it: vim, nano and > Kate, Emacs, gEdit) which provide syntax highlighting > and a host of other options. Are they at a loss? > > 2. IDEs are great for development. Because, they hide > the actual commands of compiling, interpreting / > running the program. A real drawback as I see it. As long as I was using TC++, I did not even know about the existence of makefiles. > (some) They also enable the user > with point-click tools and generate code for those > tools / components. > Surprisingly, the same students are allowed to use the > Turbo C++ 3.0 (16-bit compiler) IDE with syntax Quite a neat piece of software as such, but it obscures the details of building an executable. Regards, Mohan S N -- The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
