Comments on: Workshops of doom.

By: machekku

machekku — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:46:50 +0000

Personally, I don’t think that knowing ‘javac sth.java’ (or it was another command?) would help me much to learn Java
Pressing F5 is as “magical” as typing ‘javac sth.java’, but at least you don’t have to leave the editor to do this, and you don’t have to search for the line containing the error

By: Kev

Kev — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:54:28 +0000

That isn’t the case for our undergraduates though, they use javac from the very start. I think this is preferable, personally; hiding internals from programmers with an IDE isn’t a good way to learn. You need to understand the basics before you can effectively use tools to make life easy for yourself.

By: machekku

machekku — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 02:20:37 +0000

I had 4-month Java course, and I learned how to compile a program at the last week. Why? I because I used IDE to develop the project. At the very end, I just asked someone how to use javac (or something like this).