Timeline for Should newbies use IDE autocomplete (Intellisense)?
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| Jan 26, 2011 at 17:22 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki | ||
| Jan 26, 2011 at 13:27 | comment | added | ozz | I've read your edit, but I'd like to think the noobs we are hire are smart people who will look at what is filled in, question them, and understand them. Whether that happens in practice of course is another question. | |
| Jan 26, 2011 at 12:25 | comment | added | codinguser | I'm all for autocomplete when you've mastered the basics. Speed is good when you know what you're speeding up. But when an IDE automatically fills a parameter based on a local variable of same type, or adds an import statement, it just works and some newbies don't really understand it. | |
| Jan 26, 2011 at 12:11 | history | answered | ozz | CC BY-SA 2.5 |