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Re: How to: Teach java?
A few folks have mentioned Eclipse.

To complement Eclipse, I'll mention NetBeans. It is tightly affiliated with Oracle and the rest of the Java community. It was easy for me to learn as a Java beginner. It has some fancy features that I might get around to using some day, but until I want to use them, they don't get in my way.

Eclipse on the other hand, never makes me happy. Probably because I have invested less time into using it than I have invested into NetBeans. However, there might be a fundamental difference in ease of use. Tools that emerge from the Unix/Linux community often assume users have a tremendous depth and breadth of knowledge, and/or expect you to understand instinctively subjects like the convoluted, terse syntax used writing a regular expression.

If I had a nickel for every time a *nix tool or help file used a word or phrase for which I had no definition or antecedent, I would have a lot of nickels....

About Visual Studio and C#... I have to agree that switching from Java (+NetBeans) to C# for one project was just about as easy as falling off a log; but my prejudices against Microsoft's attempts at global hegemony (and my curmudgeonly belief that C# was created and promoted for business reasons, not for technical reasons) caused me to switch back to using Java as soon as that one project was over.

Blake
PS: If writing FRC robot code is made easy by some plug-in or other tool integrated into Eclipse, but not into NetBeans, that makes the choice pretty easy.
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