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Choose a development environment

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- [Instructor] In order to program in Java, you'll need to choose a text editor. You can choose from a range, starting with very simple text editors and going all the way up to full-blown integrated development environments. In the early days of Java, a developer might simply use VI or some other very low level editor to create text files and then compile their code from the command line. But today, there are many powerful and free IDEs available that can really help you speed up your programming. And most of them work on all of the major operating systems that you might be using. Here are some simple text editors that have support for Java to some extent. On Windows, you might choose TextPad or JCreator. Now these were designed to integrate with Java in much older versions. They haven't been kept up to speed, though, with the most recent versions of Java, and so in general, I don't recommend using those. For macOS, you…

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