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What is wrong with autogenerated code?

• reitanqild 9y ago
  Nothing. There is nothing wrong with code generation in a production setting with "grown up" engineers who uses version control and knows the pitfalls. The part in parenthesis is just a rant about education and how teachers use notepad and javac to teach Java. So my point is the only thing students shouldn't use in an IDE is code generation.
  • copperx 9y ago
    But going from javac to Maven in CS1 would be insanely difficult; there are many prerequisites before one can use Maven. It may only work in top-tier schools.
    • reitanqild 9y ago
      I'd say quite the contrary: If I had been given a zip with a basic pom file and the correct main and test directories I think I'd had a much simpler start.