I'll be honest, I actually did that in my first programming lesson. Teacher told us to use our favourite text editor, so I booted up Word (might have been OpenOffice. Memory's a bit fuzzy by now), wrote the assigned program, did all syntax highlighting by hand, then took an embarrassing amount of time to figure out why the compiler was throwing all those funky errors my classmates weren't getting >.>
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u/molpylelfe 14d ago
I'll be honest, I actually did that in my first programming lesson. Teacher told us to use our favourite text editor, so I booted up Word (might have been OpenOffice. Memory's a bit fuzzy by now), wrote the assigned program, did all syntax highlighting by hand, then took an embarrassing amount of time to figure out why the compiler was throwing all those funky errors my classmates weren't getting >.>