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Introducing IDEs
3:14Let's discuss what an IDE, or Integrated Development Environment is, and then install one...IntelliJ IDEA by JetBrains.
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[SOUND] So far, we've been writing our
code in workspaces in a text editor and
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then manually compiling and
running our program and terminal.
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As you might have guessed,
there is a better way to do this.
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There is an amazing grouping of tools
that makes your life as a developer
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much easier.
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These tools are quite expansive and
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have grown into just about every task you
might be asked to perform as a developer.
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From building and packaging to testing and
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discovering errors, all the way to version
control and maintaining team to do lists.
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All your tasks are covered in one place.
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This concept of grouping of necessary
development tasks into a single
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application is called an IDE, or
Integrated Development Environment.
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It integrates all the development
tasks into one place so
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that you can be more efficient.
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Now, IDEs aren't specific to Java,
many programming languages have them.
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However, due to Java's age,
these tools have grown and
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evolved to be extremely powerful and
are so common place in Java development
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that knowledge of them is often
listed as a job requirement.
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So, I figured it was the right
time to start exploring them.
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There are many IDEs available and due to
healthy competition they all offer more or
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less the same set of features.
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Choosing which IDE to use is
one of personal preference.
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However it will most likely be determined
by what others on your team are using.
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Most JAVA teams try to
standardize on a single IDE so
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they can share configurations and
settings easily.
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Don't let the options overwhelm you.
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All of the IDEs basically
offer the same tools.
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The most important thing to gain here is
the knowledge that a certain tool exists,
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and how to locate it in the application.
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Knowing what to search for in the help
system will get you most of the way there.
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For this course, I've chosen
IntelliJ IDEA by Jetbrains as our IDE.
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It's the same IDE that is
packaged up with Android Studio.
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So you'll be comfortable should
you end up continuing on to
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the Android development route.
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Like I said,
almost everything I show you in IntelliJ
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is available in its competitors,
especially Eclipse and NetBeans.
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It just might be implemented
a little bit differently.
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So, let's go install it.
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So again, chances are, just like the JDK
installation, by the time you get here,
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this installation is going to
look a little different as well.
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So check out the teacher's notes and
hit the forum if it isn't clear.
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So let's search for IntelliJ IDEA,
so we'll say IntelliJ IDEA.
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Great.
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And here we'll see where you download it.
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Let's click download.
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And you'll see here that there's different
versions that auto detected that I was on
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MAC but you can switch back and
forth up here.
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And we're gonna choose
the Community Edition.
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It's free and it's plenty for
us right now.
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So let's go ahead and get this downloaded.
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And I want you to go
through the teacher's notes
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to go through the rest of
the installation process.
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Now, I've added guides for
both Windows and
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Mac, and if they get out of date,
I'll work on getting them fixed.
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So go ahead now and follow your specific
instructions and when you finish,
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continue onto the next video where we'll
finish setting up your shiny new IDE.
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