Local Java IDEs for High School

There are lots of local IDEs you can choose for your school and computer science classes.

Here are a few bits about local Java IDEs.

The 3 Java IDEs that I prefer in no particular order are :

Intellij   –  FREE

The community version is what you want :

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/?section=windows

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/getting-started.html

Eclipse  –  FREE

https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/installer

VS Code  –  FREE

https://code.visualstudio.com/Download

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/java/java-tutorial

I would say that my high school students seem to prefer Intellij to Eclipse.

I have used both for many years for in-class and contest use.

College students / industry professionals that I know seem to prefer VS Code as VS Code makes it very easy to switch between different languages.

I will not recommend an online IDE as I feel strongly that students should use a local IDE.

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