Java - Eclipse

[psychopixi]

Anyone who knows anything about programming in Java, can you tell me whether Eclipse is any good? Or can you recommend another program for writing the code in?

[psychopixi]

Addendum: I've been told that Eclipse is good, but maybe just too big / complicated for what I need to do with it, and that maybe I should check out something simpler until I need the full functionality.

[Red Baron]

try jGrasp, it's what I started on and it's pretty simple to use.

[lateralus]

Not big on OOP. Is Eclipse an IDE?

[SomeGuy]

Wow...I was shocked to see this thread...yes eclipse is really good...It has lots of time saving functions and can do many things like auto formatting and can organize imports. It also can auto generate constructors and cool stuff like that...really simple to use...still might be somewhat complicated if your attemting to learn Java on your own.

[lateralus]

Guess it is an IDE.

I use KDevelop for everything. Syntax highlighting and numbered lines (and perhaps built-in command line for compiling/testing) is all I use in an IDE anyway.

[psychopixi]

Thanks. I'm learning java as part of a degree in computer science, so it's not technically "on my own" but I'm in the first year, and while the third years have agreed it's a good program for them, they said it might be too complicated to bother with in the first year.