{"id":1176,"date":"2023-07-28T12:26:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T17:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2023-07-28T12:28:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T17:28:08","slug":"local-java-ides-for-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/local-java-ides-for-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Java IDEs for High School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are lots of local IDEs you can choose for your school and computer science classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are a few bits about local Java IDEs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 3 Java IDEs that I prefer in no particular order are :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Intellij&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; FREE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The community version is what you want :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jetbrains.com\/idea\/download\/?section=windows\">https:\/\/www.jetbrains.com\/idea\/download\/?section=windows<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jetbrains.com\/help\/idea\/getting-started.html\">https:\/\/www.jetbrains.com\/help\/idea\/getting-started.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eclipse&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; FREE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eclipse.org\/downloads\/packages\/installer\">https:\/\/www.eclipse.org\/downloads\/packages\/installer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VS Code&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; FREE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/code.visualstudio.com\/Download\">https:\/\/code.visualstudio.com\/Download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/code.visualstudio.com\/docs\/java\/java-tutorial\">https:\/\/code.visualstudio.com\/docs\/java\/java-tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would say that my high school students seem to prefer Intellij to Eclipse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have used both for many years for in-class and contest use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>College students \/ industry professionals that I know seem to prefer VS Code as VS Code makes it very easy to switch between different languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will not recommend an online IDE as I feel strongly that students should use a local IDE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you need amazing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/material.htm\">Java Curriculum Materials<\/a>, check out the A+ Computer Science materials.  The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/material.htm\">BEST JAVA MATERIALS<\/a> on the PLANET!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of local IDEs you can choose for your school and computer science classes. Here are a few bits about local Java IDEs. The 3 Java IDEs that I prefer in no particular order are : Intellij&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; FREE The community version is what you want : https:\/\/www.jetbrains.com\/idea\/download\/?section=windows https:\/\/www.jetbrains.com\/help\/idea\/getting-started.html Eclipse&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; FREE https:\/\/www.eclipse.org\/downloads\/packages\/installer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,20,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}