IntelliJ IDE

Why IntelliJ over Eclipse for CSSE374?

• Useful keyboard shortcuts and "smarter" autocomplete to save you time (pressing Ctrl+Space makes autocomplete pop up)
• Look into the source code of Java classes (such as imports), to speed up finding examples to use for the UML Diagram Generator project
• Can help you remove unnecessary code and even fix some logic errors.
• Also detects some duplicate code (but not duplicate logic). Do not rely on it though. Please look through your own code as it may miss some things.
• It supports multiple packages (important for CSSE374's presentation/domain/data_source "layer" separation, those are 3 packages and Eclipse does weird stuff with them)

Getting an IntelliJ Pro License Key FOR FREE as a Rose student

They are free for Rose students (and many others with a .edu email)! I recommend taking advantage of it!

Apply for a key here (it usually takes 1 hour to get the key): https://www.jetbrains.com/shop/eform/students

Installation in Arch Linux

Install yay: sudo pacman -S yay

And then type: yay -S intellij-idea-ultimate-edition (you might have to type in your password, but for security reasons you can't run yay as root by doing sudo yay ...)

Source: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/intellij-idea-ultimate-edition/