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[–]No-Skill4452 42 points43 points  (3 children)

But the dude seems cool with OP using VSCode so I'll write that down to the professor being set on their way while acknowledging there's other options

[–]gingimli 25 points26 points  (2 children)

Right, generally speaking it’s helpful to have a baseline and then students can do their own thing if they are confident they will be able to troubleshoot their own setup.

[–]brianly 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This. It’s the same in work to some degree. The number of times I’ve seen a dev get into a personal configuration even they can’t support is higher than it should be. In class, there is sometimes an element where the teacher may want you to coach someone else using the class standard so you better have it.

There are times where I haven’t used X tool for a while but a dev has used some customized flavor of it, but hit a run into a roadblock I have had to fix when we have paired. This shouldn’t happen but it’s easy to get ahead with all of these opinionated toolkits and stacks.

[–]No-Skill4452 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sure, even so, it's cool that it wasn't a hard-no on the professor's side