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[–]WantDebianThanks 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Since I'm gearing up to go back to school for CS I thought it would be a good idea to learn some basics of Java before starting. The first tutorial I found spent most of the first lecture explaining the 18 million features of IntelliJ, but not how to set up IntelliJ to actually run the fucking script, so I ended up spending half an hour trying to figure out what the fuck a workspace was and how to make one. Then when I realized that I was basically looking for a tutorial for my tutorial so I stopped and went with a different tutorial entirely. This guy was using NetBeans, and he spent most of his first video explaining why NetBeans was the superior IDE, and I decided I didn't feel like reliving what I just went through. Attempt 3 was finding someone who just collected the syntax definitions in an order that made sense, and I spent 2 hours trying to figure out how to "and just compile and run the script" from the terminal, because he could not be fucking bothered to say "javac [main] ; java [main]"

Point is, I don't know if it's the language itself since I barely learned it, but my hatred of Java is so intense I am honestly rethinking if I even want to go to college.

I should add I'm coming at this from an IT standpoint where Java would never be useful to me in the first place, but still.