This is the second part of my complete Java course. You can find the first part, where I give an introduction about Java in general here.
This post is about installing the IDE IntelliJ. As I said already in my last post, it makes coding a lot easier by offering autocompletion, automatic code analysis and much more. There are also other IDEs like Eclipse and NetBeans. Those are totally fine to use too, so feel free to use whichever IDE you want. However, I personally prefer IntelliJ because it has a clean design, it's fast and everything just works. Also, I think it's the most widely used one, but don't quote me on that.
You'll probably want to download the community editions since it's free and has all the important features. There's also the ultimate edition, however it costs 500$ for the first year only, and only offers some extra enterprise features which we won't need anyways.
Anyways, at first I wanted to write a detailed step-by-step guide on how to install it, however on the official IntelliJ website there is already a really well written guide, which explains everything for all operating systems, and I don't think I could explain it any better, so I'll just link it here: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/install-and-set-up-product.html
If you've sucessfully installed it, you should see this dialogue (depending on the theme you chose the colors may be different):
Now we need to create a workspace, where we can code. To do that, click on "Create New Project", then on "Next" two times, then enter a project name, and if you want change the project location, and lastly click on "Finish". Now you should have something like this:
Congratulations, you're now ready to start writing code. In the next part of this series, we'll write our first "Hello, World!" program. As always, if you liked this post, I'd appreciate it if you could give me an upvote and maybe even resteem this. I hope to see you in my next blog, bye!
