One of the biggest pluses of an IDE is the contextual access to the API. This helps a lot when learning a new language/framework. I haven't used many IDEs late

One of the biggest pluses of an IDE is the contextual access to the API. This helps a lot when learning a new language/framework. I haven't used many IDEs lately by when I was learning Java, netbeans was my best friend. Aside from that, maybe the easy access to debugging. Although tests have made debugging less necessary for me.