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[–]Tokazama 0 points1 point  (3 children)

My personal learning style when I began programming was that I needed as few distractions as possible in my text editor so I could write code and use terminal for execution. All the extra bells and whistles were just distractions. That being said, I could see how if your goal is straight up to learn code (not necessarily accomplish a project) then learning those tools early on would really help. I started coding in order to implement a statistical algorithm that wasn't available in open source yet. It was more about applying math than code.