It's not about learning "in their own way," it's just about baby steps. Programmers tend to get enthusiastic and start giving enthusiastic advice, like "use Ema

It's not about learning "in their own way," it's just about baby steps. Programmers tend to get enthusiastic and start giving enthusiastic advice, like "use Emacs!" I learned Javascript in shitty Aptana Studio and (thanks to Zed) Python in gedit. Now I use Vim for everything.