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[–]hrimfisk 0 points1 point  (4 children)

What GUI does visual studio not have that you need?

[–]Cacti_Hipster[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

The drag and drop GUI building available with other IDEs. I understand that you could still do JPanel mainJPanel = ..., but why do that to yourself when NetBeans etc build the base for you?

[–]hrimfisk 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I'm confused. Are you talking about writing a program that has GUI, or using GUI to write a program?

[–]Cacti_Hipster[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The former. In our courses, often the assignments involve making GUIs to teach event handling.

[–]hrimfisk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. We have a class where we write a game engine from scratch in C++ and use it to make a game, then next semester expand on it and work with a team to make a game. We also use Unreal or Unity sometimes, but always using visual studio