Some schools out there encourage students to do as much as they can with the terminal (at least, for the first semester) and a simple text editor. The side eff

Some schools out there encourage students to do as much as they can with the terminal (at least, for the first semester) and a simple text editor. The side effect is that there’s no IDE magic behind builds (it’s all plain makefiles and command line tools the students can run on their own). There’s no smart completion, so you have to go out and browse man pages or official documentation.