I hope not, that would be malpractice

However, I wanted to make the distinction that while @systems asked about Eclipse as a Java IDE, which it is objectively terrible at, Eclipse is like NetBeans in that it is multi-language[1] and is likely more accessible as an open-source C++ IDE for university use than trying to get CLion licenses (and, ahem, then explain CMake to students :-/ )

1: yes, I'm acutely aware IDEA is also multi-language but the open source distribution only covers Java and Python, unlike Eclipse and NetBeans

CLion licenses are free for people with university email addresses, and perhaps you can figure out some basic subset of CMake to just compile a few files.

In my experience, university CS courses are always pushing woefully outdated tooling and avoiding any remotely modern standard practices like the plague.

I was lucky to have one course in 2018 in which the professor actually included the most bare bones `git` usage.

I actually never had a class in which an IDE was recommended. In 2008 I did have a class on C (first half C, second half Java) in which we were restricted to using C89 because that was most widely adopted in industry. I really missed block-scoped variables in for loops (`for (int i = 0...)`).

Students should be learning how to move industries forward, not backward.