My java programming courses used BlueJ, but I quickly moved on to another one. I can't remember the name, but it was written in C++ so it was fast, and the IDE felt like VC 6.0 which was current then.

You can program without programming tools, and integrated development environments (IDEs) are popular among developers. I take a different approach. I treat my Linux system, with its array of ...

One negative point he made about being a .NET developer was that he became more reliant on an IDE for programming than he would have with PHP.