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>Where did you see that? It's not mandated My AP teacher mandates the use of BlueJ, I was under the impression it was AP. I asked if I could use another full I

>Where did you see that? It's not mandated My AP teacher mandates the use of BlueJ, I was under the impression it was AP. I asked if I could use another full IDE because the keybinds in BlueJ suck, he said no because the Intellisense/other smart features may make it easier and I won't be able to use it on the exam. Which is sort of fair I suppose. >Well, if they use Replit, they'd never know they didn't know! And they'd never get a chance to learn to troubleshoot. They'd never learn general computing knowledge. But that's part of my "ecosystem" point. Very true. > Students 10 years ago at my school learned Linux, MongoDB (why not? lol), Java, Eclipse, bash, git, etc That makes me glad that I'm learning with good tools. I hope the trend doesn't continue to fully learning college courses in a browser. :/ Then again, I'm literally in high school hating on the new-fangled tools...

908B64B197 6y ago
> he said no because the Intellisense/other smart features may make it easier and I won't be able to use it on the exam. Which is sort of fair I suppose. The exam's done wrong. Intellisense mostly gives you navigation in a big project (shouldn't need that in a written test) and method name auto-complete. Remembering it's ToString() and not tostring() or PrintAsString() is pointless. What matters is computational thinking. > I hope the trend doesn't continue to fully learning college courses in a browser. :/ Some colleges will, for sure. Probably not the good ones. > Then again, I'm literally in high school hating on the new-fangled tools... Ever heard of the term "graybeard"? [0] [0] https://gist.github.com/lenards/3739917#:~:text=Greybeard%20An%20aging%20,%20these%20[Gandalf]%20resembling%20[curmudgeons],complete%20inability%20to%20use%20a%20remotely%20contemporary%20computer https://gist.github.com/lenards/3739917#:~:text=Greybeard%20....

908B64B197 6y ago

> he said no because the Intellisense/other smart features may make it easier and I won't be able to use it on the exam. Which is sort of fair I suppose. The exam's done wrong. Intellisense mostly gives you navigation in a big project (shouldn't need that in a written test) and method name auto-complete. Remembering it's ToString() and not tostring() or PrintAsString() is pointless. What matters is computational thinking. > I hope the trend doesn't continue to fully learning college courses in a browser. :/ Some colleges will, for sure. Probably not the good ones. > Then again, I'm literally in high school hating on the new-fangled tools... Ever heard of the term "graybeard"? [0] [0] https://gist.github.com/lenards/3739917#:~:text=Greybeard%20An%20aging%20,%20these%20[Gandalf]%20resembling%20[curmudgeons],complete%20inability%20to%20use%20a%20remotely%20contemporary%20computer https://gist.github.com/lenards/3739917#:~:text=Greybeard%20....