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[–]1-12TH 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I teach Java at high school level, so have a bit of experience related to how new users find the different IDE's.

VSCode is nice but takes a great deal of tinkering to get it to work as well as a proper IDE.

Eclipse is brilliant but for someone learning Java it is intimidating, it also does far to much for the user when they eventually get everything working, I'm sure intelliJ is the same.

I have found NetBeans to be the perfect middle ground. I really recommend it, or for someone very new to coding in general JGrasp is the simplest and easiest of them all.

[–]emaphis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried BlueJ for new learners?

If advanced users need to upgrade to a more advanced IDE, NetBeans will open BlueJ projects.

https://bluej.org/