Re: Java tools

From: Hikikomori (littlewild_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/15/05 

Date: 14 Mar 2005 19:29:08 -0800

My teachers must have made the mistake of confusing teaching with
learning too. From the way they taught me, I didn't think I was
supposed to use what I learned. =D

Seriously, I was taught command line programming when I first started.
Things like "javac abc.java" or "java abc" are familiar to me. When I
started to work, I realized that everyone is using an IDE and no one
cares about the command line. Strangely, they don't seem to be any less
productive than those command line gurus.

John C. Bollinger wrote:
> You are making a dangerous mistake: confusing teaching with learning.

> You can cover the details you describe in a short class, but the best

> way for students to _learn_ them is to have to _use_ them. It takes
> more use than just a few exercises.
>
> --
> John Bollinger
> jobollin@indiana.edu

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