Re:Stop Making Students Use Eclipse (2020)
by yeputons on Sunday November 07, 2021 @04:35AM
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> One single lesson outside the IDE would have filled this gap.
Hmm, what would the lesson look like? I doubt there is a way to teach everything about out-of-IDE/advanced Java development in just a single hour or two. You mentioned CLASSPATH, but there are also JARs with manifest files, there are multitude of build systems with their own configuration languages/plugins/conventions, there are ClassLoaders, there are Java Compiler Plugins... Just too much.
You either list terms for two hours straight without any details and exercises or you choose some semi-random subset of topics, which may very well not include CLASSPATH for some reason. Alternatively, you teach for ten hours instead of two.
Hmm, what would the lesson look like? I doubt there is a way to teach everything about out-of-IDE/advanced Java development in just a single hour or two. You mentioned CLASSPATH, but there are also JARs with manifest files, there are multitude of build systems with their own configuration languages/plugins/conventions, there are ClassLoaders, there are Java Compiler Plugins... Just too much.
You either list terms for two hours straight without any details and exercises or you choose some semi-random subset of topics, which may very well not include CLASSPATH for some reason. Alternatively, you teach for ten hours instead of two.