Does relying on an IDE for development make you a bad programmer?
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I can also not see the harm in using an IDE. If you're trying to insinuate that having the IDE do checks and "autocomplete" function/variable names and even show you what arguments to use where - is going to adle your brain when learning to program: I can only shake my head. Those things are simply time savers. I would have loved them when I started writing Java code - basically wrote the code on one half of the screen with the html help open on the other half - swapping pages every few seconds. No way in hell I could remember the entire Java API. These days Java's got some fine IDE's, as do most other languages (especially DotNet's C#/VB). :rolleyes: For that matter, if you feel an IDE is being soft ... then you probably feel no-one should be using any libraries either! No DotNet using clauses - you should re-write everything in each CS file (including all the functionality for strings/arrays/integers/reals/etc). If you're doing C++ you're doing it wrong - because it's an object orientation library on top of C. If you're using C, I hope you're not chickening out and making use of the stdlib! Come now, don't be a wuss! Reinvent every single wheel from history. And just to be clear, you should NEVER use any 3rd generation language, even C is to good for you. Actually, why the hell are you allowed to even use ASM? You should be prodding switches to write directly in binary after you've welded the PC into existance from scratch using only a fire started by rubbing 2 sticks together! :wtf: