Re: Great SWT Program

On Oct 16, 5:01 am, blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Maybe. Then again, programming with an IDE rather obscures the
fact that source code is plain text, converted to object code and
then an executable with a compiler. But the department where
I teach seems to focus more than some do on having students
understand what's happening at a fairly low level. Whether in
the long run that's better or worse than focusing solely, or
almost solely, on something higher-level .... I don't know.

This is odd. Are you actually for, or against, user task automation? A
decent IDE will still document what goes on under the hood (it may
even display the command lines that launched the compiler or whatever
-- one I know of definitely resulted in these scrolling by in a DOS
box along with the command output, though it redirected stderr; others
log commands and output in an internal window).

Anyone who wants to can obviously try to compile and run something
from the command line just to see how that works, with any language
implementation that supports this (which seems to be anything compiled
except Smalltalk).


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