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> Simple: BlueJ has a deliberately smaller and simpler interface than professional environments like NetBeans or Eclipse. This allows beginners to get started m
by bhedgeoser 4y ago
> Simple: BlueJ has a deliberately smaller and simpler interface than professional environments like NetBeans or Eclipse. This allows beginners to get started more quickly, and without being overwhelmed.
Simpler than intellij?
- pjmlp 4y agoGiven the target audience, yes.
- ch_123 4y agoIntelliJ is a great IDE, but it's designed for professional software developers. It can potentially be overwhelming in an educational context when teaching programming to people with no prior experience.
- ammo1662 4y agoYes, but it is totally different with a traditional IDE. It should not be compared with that. It is designed for educational purposes. So it shows some basic concept like "class", "object" and VM. You can create an object from a class, and run some method from the object. Which is very useful when you are teaching something to beginners. But for programmers, just use a professional IDE.
- jackpeterfletch 4y agoYeah its disingenuous to call BlueJ an IDE. Its just an educational tool, nothing more, designed to give a soft on ramp into OOP and programming in general.
- Double_a_92 4y agoBlueJ is really not something one would ever want to code in. It's really just to teach the basic concepts of OOPs. The title here is kinda misleading, since it's not really a practical IDE that anyone would ever want to use for actual coding.