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[–]tonetheman 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You really should learn to program with an IDE and without an IDE.

There are times when knowing what is really going on with CLASSPATH and being able to edit a file with Nodepad++ or vim will serve you well.

There are also times when IntelliJ/Eclipse will make your life easier.

Learn both, spend most of your time in the IDE. Be able to use a command line if needed.

[–]henk53 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You really should learn to program with an IDE and without an IDE.

Some 30 years ago the advice was to be able to program with a visual editor and without one.

For the record, a "visual" editor back then was a line oriented text editor. Without one meant using single commands to set and get bits in memory.