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That sounds unlikely. AFAIK both Eclipse and Netbeans have had pretty good debuggers since the early days, probably around 2002ish.
by elric 1y ago
That sounds unlikely. AFAIK both Eclipse and Netbeans have had pretty good debuggers since the early days, probably around 2002ish.
- kristianp 1y agoThe 2nd year students I interacted with weren't aware of those and they weren't available in the PC labs at the university. I think there was something called BlueJ IDE as a learning tool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueJ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueJ
- elric 1y agoThat sounds like a teaching problem instead of a tooling problem. Snark aside, I think there's value in teaching the basics first (e.g. compiling stuff with javac) before moving on to using magic to hide the complexity.