Originally Posted by
MK27
Hmm. I guess a big part of the reason I see them not aimed at beginners is because, at least in C, if you are a beginner writing projects less than 1000 lines that really only you are going to compile, you don't need any "makefiles" at all!
Of course, if you were using the command line you would just do the simplest thing:
gcc myprog.c
Hardly intimidating, and I bet it happened faster than you can say "deiconify". However, the last time I glanced at (eg) Eclipse, it wanted to produce an entire directory of object files, etc., which then need to be linked, etc. etc. in order to achieve "hello world!" -- no joke, no exaggeration. That implies to me the IDE is really geared toward much bigger things and that the priority in their design was giving pros what they want, not complete newbies what they may or may not need.