For first time students I'd argue they should stick to good IDEs with minimum hassle. They can learn the command line stuffs later. Back when I taught myself C+

For first time students I'd argue they should stick to good IDEs with minimum hassle. They can learn the command line stuffs later. Back when I taught myself C++ the least thing I wanted was to learn the compiling process at the same time, so I picked Visual Studio. After that I switched to manual compiling and linking when I studied C.