IDE like a helper for studying
In Saint-Petersburg, Russia where I live is -5 degrees Celsius now. We are in the middle of January. Cold weather and gray sky don’t prevent me to write the third tip for newbie programmers.
In the most part of articles for beginners authors provide an idea that newbie programmers should use a plain text editor for their first steps. They think It should help the beginner to understand how a program works and that it can help to understand why errors happen and what they do wrong. Sometimes I even find an opinion that IDE can harm a newbie.
I think this is the wrong approach. If you are a beginner you should use IDE, linters, hinter and so on. Many programmers have been working hard to improve these beautiful instruments in order to help us in our work. Moreover, modern tools for analysis of our code can help the beginner programmer to understand what he\she does wrong, provide description of error, and to save a lot of nerves and time. If the newbie reads description, uses documentation, and makes efforts to understand his mistakes, these analysis tools can boost the programmer’s studying.
Best regards, Vladimir Bolshakov.
