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Starting with the CLI only makes sense for students who are already using CLIs, the connection to familiar ground will help them. For other students it's just a
by kryptiskt 5y ago
Starting with the CLI only makes sense for students who are already using CLIs, the connection to familiar ground will help them. For other students it's just another burden.
Not that Eclipse is the ideal solution. These days I would probably start off teaching beginners in a web IDE like Repl.it to lower the friction even more. Of course there is a ton of things about development environments that need to be taught before they are fully-fledged programmers, but there is no need to frontload that and overwhelm them at the beginning.