Ken wrote:
"You can get up and running much faster on a language like, python, or c and
actually see results. Results is what matters when you start out coding"...
I couldn't agree more with that. The IDE is a lazy man's way to begin to program. To me,
any text book or college material which gives you a prepackaged formula, claiming to
teach you something isn't really doing you any good and shouldn't even be used by the
college. As an example, the book I am using is "An Introduction to Programming with
C plus plus, by Diane Zak." Thank goodness they used programming, not coding. They
only show you the code you need to copy and paste into your IDE, which, in this case, is
Visual Studio. I like the way the book introduces new concepts of the C plus plus
language to you, but they fail to really get down into the dirt with all of it. For
example, they tell you what an algorithm is, and they tell you the various procedures to
start writing a program; 1, analyzing a problem, 2, planning an algorithm, 3,
desk-checking your algorithm, etc. Basically, it just feels like I'm copying and pasting
in a bunch of code, into an IDE so I can pass a c
