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Installing the NetBeans IDE

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Installing the NetBeans IDE

- [Instructor] In this course, I'm going to be using the NetBeans IDE. NetBeans is a free and open-source IDE under the Apache Project. It can be used for creating and running Java applications among other things. To download it, you need to go to netbeans.apache.org and go to Download. From here, you can download the binaries. If I click on this, it takes me to a second page. This page has several options for places where you can download the NetBeans binaries from. You can choose any of these. I would just choose the suggested version at the top. This will start downloading a ZIP folder to my machine. When the ZIP file has finished downloading, I'll open up my Downloads window and extract the contents from the ZIP file. You can keep this directory anywhere you like on your computer. To start NetBeans, I go into the incubating-netbeans directory, then into netbeans, then into the bin folder, and here, I have the executables. So I just click on netbeans, and this will start the IDE…

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