I'm going to community college for computing so I can go

>>56426348
Install codeblocks.

VS can do plenty other languages, Cpp, Csharp, even Python.
some professors here require you to use specific IDE. guy leading my lab group allowed us to use anything but codeblocks though, he said its shit and compiles things that shouldnt be able to compile.

>>56426396
I know but it just seems kind of odd that it would specifically say VS

>>56426465
maybe they have some MS shill contract or whatever

>>56426348
Just use a virtual machine.

I used a virtual machine for my C# web course in software engineering. That works just fine.

I'm mainly concerned about learning a piece of shit language

>>56426348
> I'm assuming I'll be learning visual basic
No, you'll probably learn C#.

>>56426348
>Visual Basic
Consider dropping out if it's true. It's basicly pointless unless you write scripts for excel or some shit.

>>56426348
Its just because that's what your tutors will be using to teach, and what they'll be most used to sorting out when you fuck up, just use the one partition on your laptop.

>>56426348
Did you pay for it? I am wondering why do people pay people to instruct things they don't want to learn?

>>56426348
I don't think I've ever seen vs used for vb. I'd say c++ but community college so probably html.

>>56426531
The actual language you learn is not important

>>56426396
>guy leading my lab group allowed us to use anything but codeblocks though, he said its shit and compiles things that shouldnt be able to compile.
But codeblocks uses mingw/gcc, wouldn't other gcc compilers do the same? Of course, gcc does allow gnu extensions which might be what he means by "things that shouldnt be able to compile", but there's an option to disable that so it will compile only standard code.