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What are your favourite IDEs? Which ones do your students like? Please feel free to comment on these and add more too:

BlueJ official description

A free IDE that is designed for teaching Object oriented Programming to students.

Advantages

  • Visual approach to objects
  • Objects can be created and examined on the fly (using the workbench)
  • Good debugger
  • Teachers can create templates for classes

Disavantages

  • Editor could be better visually (some students find it hard to use)

Dr Java

Easy to use editor with simple syntax highlighting and uses colour, eg to see if brackets match (very useful for beginners).

JGrasp

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JCreator

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Netbeans

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