I occasionally whine about not feeling like my programming skills are up to par with those of my peers over at ETSU. I'm starting to wonder if it's because I tend to come at things differently when it comes to tools. In all of my web design/coding courses, my classmates have opted to use Dreamweaver. In those same courses, I've used Notepad, Textpad, or vi to edit and Firefox to test. I think they've learned to rely on their development environment to hold their hands while they code, while I tend to rely heavily on my brain, notes, and Google.
I'm starting to wonder if I should try forcing myself to use Dreamweaver for web stuff or the web interface to Oracle for SQL or whatever...