Re:Stop Making Students Use Eclipse (2020)
by zelphirkalt on Sunday November 07, 2021 @09:37AM
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> When I saw the title my first thought was literally “yeah stop making students use eclipse, they should be using IntelliJ!”
I disagree with this point. Universities should stop driving students into the arms of proprietary software vendors. Eclipse does the job and works well enough, with a license, which does not limit students later on. If they learned Eclipse, they will be able to learn other IDEs later on, if the job requires it.
Of course it would be good, if somehow for a low cost in frustration and time, students could learn about what it all translates to on the command line.
I disagree with this point. Universities should stop driving students into the arms of proprietary software vendors. Eclipse does the job and works well enough, with a license, which does not limit students later on. If they learned Eclipse, they will be able to learn other IDEs later on, if the job requires it.
Of course it would be good, if somehow for a low cost in frustration and time, students could learn about what it all translates to on the command line.