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This is silly. Not every programmer is or will be a professional programmer. For example, I am a researcher and I use programming in my research projects. I ca
by xname 12y ago
This is silly. Not every programmer is or will be a professional programmer.
For example, I am a researcher and I use programming in my research projects. I cannot live without using Visual Studio for C#, RStudio for R, SAS Windows for SAS. I am not will never become a professional programmer. I am totally OK with it, because programming is not my profession and I have countless other stuff to learn. I know there are a lot people like me.
This is not a good advice for beginners. At least not for all beginners.
- zedshaw 12y agoI just use vim for all of those.
- xname 12y agoTell me how to open sas7bdat data file with vim.
- shepardrtc 12y agoNot sure why you're being downvoted, but I agree with you. IDE's can be very helpful and make things a bit less intimidating at first. Just hitting a "Run" button to make things build and run takes out a lot of the stress. When starting with a new language, that's often just what I want to do at first. I can worry about the nitty-gritty details later. And for researchers and non-programmers, they won't ever have to worry about those details. The goal of software should be to make things simpler.