- Professional IDEs
- Hello World
- Creating a Full Project in IntelliJ
- IntelliJ IDEA Features
- IntelliJ IDEA Resources
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Professional IDEs
BlueJ was great for beginner projects, but you should move to a professional IDE for full-scale projects. A full IDE offers many benefits such as:
- Code completion
- Automatic compile-error detection
- Debugger tools
- Refactoring tools
- Version control tools
Eclipse is the most-used IDE, but this module will focus on IntelliJ IDEA which is a little more polished out of the box. Both IDEs share a similar set of features, so you don't need to worry much about which you use. IntelliJ offers 2 editions - the free community edition and the commercial Ultimate edition. At this point, the community edition offers everything you need.
Task
0 - Make sure you have Java (the JDK) installed on your computer.
1 - Download IntelliJ IDEA community edition.
2 - Install IntelliJ IDEA and open it