On Jun 29, 2010, at 8:19 PM, Michał Marczyk wrote: > I think that an Edwin-like experience with Emacs would be perfectly > fine for newcomers to programming. [etc.]
> > You could even spend some time (or have your TAs spend it) on a Q&A > session to address any Emacs configuration issues after, say, the > first week. I agree. It wouldn't be terrible (assuming clojure-mode), particularly for a course in which everyone has some programming experience. But an editor that obeys OS-standard-ish interface conventions (with at least minimal language-awareness re: paren-matching & indentation), and that doesn't require any special attention, would quite a bit better. I'm happy because it's looking like there are a couple of options for this that also provide a lot more (IDE features) and are also getting simpler to set up and grok. Some (all?) of these do have a few more setup steps than I'd like, for setting up the system in the first place and/or for setting up a new project, and/or they require one to understand a few more Java project organization concepts than I would like just to get started, but on balance I think these IDEs are now looking better to me than an emacs-based approach. I still have to re-evaluate the current versions of the IDEs to decide which to use in the fall, and if the recent past is prologue they may get even better before the semester starts. -Lee -- Lee Spector, Professor of Computer Science School of Cognitive Science, Hampshire College 893 West Street, Amherst, MA 01002-3359 lspec...@hampshire.edu, http://hampshire.edu/lspector/ Phone: 413-559-5352, Fax: 413-559-5438 Check out Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines: http://www.springer.com/10710 - http://gpemjournal.blogspot.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
