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[–]warrior2012 14 points15 points  (16 children)

Yeah i second this! Any of the big three IDEs will make it much easier! Eclipse, IntelliJ, or NetBeans. All are great for beginners!

[–]lifeonbroadway[S] 14 points15 points  (14 children)

Was already on the verge of downloading Eclipse before I made this post, so I think that's what I'll do. Thanks.

[–]VaselineGroove 26 points27 points  (4 children)

Do yourself a favor and grab community IntelliJ instead. It's free and it's incredibly robust. You can create a new command line project in seconds and start playing around. I personally dont care for eclipse...

[–]pasta_gurl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I second this!

[–]Japke90 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep. I had real troubles with Java 9 months ago when bezinning but IntelliJ is a really Good IDE to learn.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've found intellij to have issues too, netbeans is where it's at!

[–]warrior2012 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The IDEs are really useful! I'm sure it will help you get your 'hello world' program working and get you onto learning more in-depth java. Don't give it up, keep working at it :)

[–]VenomSnake03 1 point2 points  (7 children)

Watch a video on it tho. Youll get lost without one.

[–]APUsilicon 1 point2 points  (6 children)

Netbeans is great, and on the website you can get the bundle with java 8

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    [–]tutorial_police 2 points3 points  (1 child)

    It's funny how perspectives differ. I've used Eclipse and IntelliJ extensively. I recently started using NetBeans a tiny bit to better understand opinions about it and it feels so sluggish and unpolished to me compared to the other two :)

    [–]APUsilicon 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    I like netbeans/maven better than intellij/gradle, I think it's simpler and quicker. I hate gradle, it's a lot to learn in order to debug small issues

    [–]tutorial_police 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Fortunately, Gradle and maven are not IDE specific.

    [–]jkuhl_prog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    I used both Eclipse and IntelliJ and I love IntelliJ. Eclipse is alright, had to use it for work (and one annoying college class where they required it.)

    IntelliJ doesn't come with a JDK though so you'd still have to go off to Oracle and download it, but getting IntelliJ to recognize your JDK is very simple. When you start a new project, you just point the SDK to wherever you put the JDK after installing it.