What programming language are you comfortable with? I'd say syntactically Java is fairly simple and at least superficially similar to C/C++. Environment wise, i

What programming language are you comfortable with? I'd say syntactically Java is fairly simple and at least superficially similar to C/C++. Environment wise, it's definitely very large and oriented toward "powerful but complex" rather than "simple and orthogonal". For build and dependency management systems, Gradle or Maven are your tools. I personally prefer Gradle since it uses a programming language for it's configuration, rather than xml. There is definitely a lack "end-to-end" tutorials that don't rely on some form of tooling support. I would love to see more content on how to make a Java program with nothing but an editor and a command line, but I suspect there isn't much of a need for that. Java's tooling is exceptionally good, it's libraries mature and robust. Part of the reason every tutorial out there uses an IDE is because through quirks of history Java is basically an Enterprise programming environment where "Build the Right Thing" predominates over "Worse is Better". EDIT: There is a REPL included with each JDK after 9 called JShell. It's useful if you just want to get up to speed or if you want to test something quickly.