[ILUG] Java on Linux

[Frank Murphy (Frankly3D)]

Phil Bradley wrote:
>
> 
> The language itself won't be any different, that's part of the design
> goal of Java. If you're programming for the first time, your experience
> will be dominated by the tools chosen by the course designers. What I
> mean by this is that often, when students start, they see the
> development environment as being synonymous with the language. So, if
> they are using JCreator to write Java programs, to them, JCreator "is"
> Java. Of course, this is not true, you can write Java programs in any of
> a number of IDEs (Netbeans, Eclipse, Visual Studio) or just use a
> regular text editor like notepad (or notepad++ which is free and highly
> recommended).
> 
>

Down here, am currently learning it using BlueJ,
In school on Windows, bring the ext\hd home and continue on Linux (BlueJ).

Frank