Yes, I only make them do the first ten assignments in Notepad and a command-line compiler. Then we switch to JCreator, which is a pretty unremarkable IDE, but i

Yes, I only make them do the first ten assignments in Notepad and a command-line compiler. Then we switch to JCreator, which is a pretty unremarkable IDE, but it does have syntax highlighting and a few other niceties that make it a much more efficient code editor.