Originally Posted by
Aikon
this is my first post and was just browsing around
I believe that its better to use a basic text editor such as notepad or textpad for the beginners. Correct me if i am wrong. I am coming from a the .Net world and to be honest the visual studio really made me lazy in various aspects.
I wish to know however once i migrate from notepad or textpad which is the best IDE around? Some say Eclipse... others say Netbeans.
One last question pls.... Is there any sort of intellisense available? Or maybe some trick to move around the API documentation in an easy way?
thanks for any help
First: Welcome and I am glad that another contributor is here.
Second: I do disagree using a text editor. Especially as a beginner I would misspell or simply not know by heart a lot of properties and method of the different classes and do not know exactly the class names to be imported. In the IDE I have many helpful features that remind me (e.g. IDE syntax checks) about all those things that - using notepad - I would have to read a lot the documentation and further need a lot of trial&error compile attempts.
The only thing: The very first time for the hello world sample it is good if you try it "by hand" using notepad and java compiler so that you understand how it works.
I definitely do not want to be thrown back to stone age of software development!