If you're going in CS or software development and don't learn the command line quickly, you'll be at a distinct disadvantage to many of your peers. Besides, ev

If you're going in CS or software development and don't learn the command line quickly, you'll be at a distinct disadvantage to many of your peers. Besides, everyone in a CS program these days gets a shell account, right? I mean, login from home using whatever SSH client is hip on Windows these days and then it's just a matter of doing: javac YOURFILE java YOURFILE (making sure that your class path is set up to your cwd). You don't even have to use vi/vim, nano is available on most any linux/unix distro. No complex environment to set up at all, although even setting up a Java IDE is not that hard (my friend's HS students do it with little problem).