I am a CS prof at NYU, which uses Java for CS 101. I have taught this course a few times and have learned Java as a result. During my sabbatical year (a coincidence? :-) )the department decided to teach the eclipse IDE.
I have never used an IDE so though i should try now instead of waiting until september. merging eclipse-ecj was painless and sure enough it does seem to compile my programs. It even noticed that I didn't close a scanner. I can still use javac if desired. Fine. I have not yet merged eclipse-sdk. Must I merge this? The only version in the main tree is masked and it brings in 83! packages. Others in the dept (and students) praise the eclipse debugger. I don't see how I will be invoking it. Also what about the eclipse editor? I guess, I need to be pointed at the right documentation. I went to wiki.eclipse.org but am not sure where to go to from here. thanks, allan
