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Choosing a development environment

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Choosing a development environment

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- [Instructor] There are many development environments available for Java developers. If you're working on a software development team, you might not be able to choose your own IDE. The entire team might be working with the same software, but if you're an independent developer, or you're just learning the language, you can choose your own development environment, and here are some of the available choices. Java code is written in simple text files, so any text editor will do. You could choose a simple text editor and then compile your code on the command line. The reality though, is that Java code can get long and a little bit complex, so having a good IDE can help you code faster and find your errors more quickly. There are many IDEs available. Most of the ones I'm going to mention work on all of the major operating systems, Windows, macOS, and variants of Linux, but some of them are specific to particular operating systems. On macOS for example, you can use BBEdit or TextWrangler…

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