[Help] Java development

[_moon]

I wonder how you can say with such assurance which of Eclipse or Netbeans is the best.


Both are good, yet Netbeans is faster, lighter, richer, and much much more nicely coded than Eclipse. However, it falls far behind plugins-wise.


I've been working with Java for four years now and still use both, depending on the project and/or my needs

[Nanayaw]

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[petermlm]

I didn't read everything in this topic but I need to say that if one is going to start learning Java, then he should write programs in a text editor and compile everything by hand.

Why?

IDEs are great. I love working with them. It is very hard  to work on big projects without them. But when it comes to learning, one needs to know how a programming language works from scratch. Eclipse is just going to create packages for classes and compile stuff without the user knowing what is going on behind all that.

So my advice is just work with a text editor for now. Compile everything in a terminal (if using Linux) or CMD (if using Windows). Learn what is to be learn about the basics of the language and then move to an IDE.

About an IDE. I love Eclipse.

[Deque]

I didn't read everything in this topic but I need to say that if one is going to start learning Java, then he should write programs in a text editor and compile everything by hand.

Why?

IDEs are great. I love working with them. It is very hard  to work on big projects without them. But when it comes to learning, one needs to know how a programming language works from scratch. Eclipse is just going to create packages for classes and compile stuff without the user knowing what is going on behind all that.

So my advice is just work with a text editor for now. Compile everything in a terminal (if using Linux) or CMD (if using Windows). Learn what is to be learn about the basics of the language and then move to an IDE.

About an IDE. I love Eclipse.

That is exactly my opinion too.
But 6 months after the inital question was raised it won't be of any use to the TO.

[petermlm]

That is exactly my opinion too.
But 6 months after the inital question was raised it won't be of any use to the TO.

Ups. I just saw this in the unread section and answered. It's not the first time I read and answer old topics because I forget to check the date. At least the advice stays here, lol.