Re: A good text editor for JAVA?

On 2005-12-07, zero penned:
>
> In my (admittedly limited) experience teaching
> non-computer-literates and my (rather extensive) experience in
> selfstudy, I have found that people tend to remember things better
> if they discover them themselves. Looking up a word in a dictionary
> is better than having the teacher tell you what it means. And I
> believe the same goes for looking it up in JavaDoc versus selecting
> from a list.

That may be. I know that I've often visited a Javadoc page for a
particular purpose, but ended up learning a lot more as I noticed
interesting methods and read about them. That would be less likely
using an IDE's selection features.

> I am not saying you should code using only vi or notepad - an IDE
> can be a wonderful tool, and it can save you a lot of time. I just
> think that when you're new to programming, using the documentation
> rather than developer tools can help you learn faster.
>
> Plus of course there's the point that many others here have made:
> learning to use an IDE is non-trivial. Combined with learning a
> language (and perhaps at the same time learning OO), it can be
> overwhelming.

I definitely agree with that. Setting up Eclipse for my current
project drove me nuts.

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