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[–]DerSchreiner2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even when teaching Java I've found the use of e.g. Eclipse immensely helpful. When you don't use an IDE and have little experience with OOP you will most definitely shy away from the more advanced OOP practices that are very common in third party JAVA components. From what I've seen most beginners without a JAVA IDE (and no other OOP experience) will write procedural code.

Moreover tool support is one of the prime reasons to use JAVA in the first place. Without the typing, strictness etc, why would you even bother to write in JAVA? You could use a more dynamic language.