I’m at a school right now where they teach C++ using Visual Studio on Windows. I transferred here, and at my old school we used gcc on the command line (using WSL if you were on Windows). The amount of time wasted in class trying to get VS to behave right is ridiculous. On top of that, none of the kids know how to troubleshoot anything outside of copy pasting their code out to Notepad and asking VS to build a new project (and sometimes that doesn’t work, and they are stuck). It’s a productivity killer, and they’re all super scared of the command line (so when Web Dev with npm or Cloud Computing with Docker is taught, they have to be hand held for the first few weeks on how to get to know the command line).
Apparently employers don’t care (probably because when they get to work everyone else uses a IDE anyway) but I don’t think it’s a good idea in the long run.
Apparently employers don’t care (probably because when they get to work everyone else uses a IDE anyway) but I don’t think it’s a good idea in the long run.