Visual Studio too complicated for beginners

Question

Hello,

Well I have been in IT before it was called IT, about 50 years (PDP8 & Fortran) now and  have seen it grow in every direction, some good, some bad.

There is however one direction where I believe MicroSoft  is closing the door on beginner getting into software development.

That is Visual Studio (IDE, Tools and SDK, WDK, language selection, feature selection etc) is becoming so complex, I am even finding it difficult to find my way thru the spaghetti.  Plus when you need help, OMG it can run into pages of bewildering HTML.

Frankly you guys have simply LOST THE PLOT..

Now there is a young man across the road whos IT literate guardians have asked me to help this young man learn programming and with 50 years of experience in assembler, C, C++, Fortran, PL1 etc, i think i am reasonable qualified to do.

The issue  is that VS 2019 is such a richly featured environment that i think it is going to overwhelm the young man and leave him browbeaten and will therefore give up which is a shame as he is mathematically talented. 

So MicroSoft what you need to do is to produce a lite weight IDE with C may C++, with integrated help similar to the discontinued Quick C you did in the late eighties.

I myself developed all sorts  of applications in Quick C, from simple games to commercial aeronautical and from the best of my recollections Quick C came on four 1.44mb floppies :-). Not blinking GB's! 

imk

Answer 1

Hi LUMIA640PHONEFROMHELL,

You might be better to post over here https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/spaces/8/index.html as this is a forum for Windows 10 Insider.