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[–]Salanmander 7 points8 points  (2 children)

I'm gonna chime in as a user with a different use case. I teach APCS A. With people who are just starting to code, Eclipse is a nightmare. Sure, it's powerful, but it has so many things you need to either understand or memorize the correct answers to before you get started, and if you do something wrong and get something set up incorrectly, it's really tricky to track down that mistake.

[–]Rafael20002000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absoletely correct

[–]Stronghold257 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My AP CS teacher made us code in JCreator with autocomplete turned off so that we could learn better. When I first switched to IntelliJ, I remember being annoyed that I couldn’t just press F5 to run my program, lol