[ajug-members] New Member

[Summers Pittman ℝ]

Terry,

For the learning the basics (and I mean VERY basics) you may be better off
with a text editor and a command line.  This way you can learn about things
like the classpath, the compiler, packages, etc from a very low/basic level.
 From there it depends on what you are doing.  For basic desktop/GUI apps I
would suggest Netbeans for its  visual designer.  For anything Google
related (App Engine, GWT, Android, etc) I would suggest Eclipse.  For web
applications either one will work rather well.

I have heard good things about IntelliJ but I have little first hand
experience with it.

I've never been much of a certification fan.  I say let your open source
projects speak for themselves ;)

Summers Pittman
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On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Terry Conner <tconner at georgiahealth.edu>wrote:

>  Hello AJUGs,
>
> I am  a new member here. I am a student at Troy State, and I am really
> looking forward to understanding Java to the fullest. I am a novice
> programmer and I am trying to get certified in Java Programming. I have a
> Question for you experts out there. What is the best IDE for java
> development, and what is a some good books for studying for the
> certification?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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