Re:Free for students: Professional developer tools from JetB...
by arikrak on Monday October 31, 2016 @06:53AM
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I think the community edition of IntelliJ should usually be enough for a college student programming in Java. Though if they're using other languages or frameworks they'll want the commercial editions.
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Re:Free for students: Professional developer tools from JetB...
by paulmd on Monday October 31, 2016 @10:10AM
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It depends on what you're building. The lack of Java EE support, JavaScript support, and Spring support are pretty notable exclusions.
You don't need to be doing enterprise programming to find the dependency injection pattern useful, it's very nice for building testable code. And Java EE is the beating heart of a Java webdev backend. Almost everything is built on Servlets and Filters and the web.xml configuration mappings, even if these are abstracted away (and the most common abstraction is - wait for it - Spring+Spring MVC). I guess you can always write Javascript without an IDE but it's definitely nice to use an IDE instead of just winging it with a browser console.