IntelliJ
BECAUSE OF ITS DEBUGGING SYSTEMS AND INTEGRATION WITH THE BOXLANG SERVER, IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT STUDENTS USE VSCODE. INTELLIJ IS A GREAT TOOL BUT PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT ALL CLASSES WILL BE TAUGHT IN VSCODE AND NOT ALL TECHNIQUES WILL BE AVAILABLE IN INTELLIJ
Background
IntelliJ from Jet Brains is a higher end development environment that has a very generous student license.
There are 5 steps to setting up IntelliJ as your IDE:
Register for the student license
Download the trial software and Installing the software
Creating a project for your website
Registering for the student license
Visit http://www.jetbrains.com/student/ the click on Apply Now. Follow the directions and make sure you use your UML email address. You will be sent a license or a login which you can use as long as you’re a student.
Installing IntelliJ
Downloading the Software
Visit https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ and click on download. Choose the Ultimate version.
Installing the software
Run the downloaded exe file and follow the instructions. This can be installed anywhere.
Creating a project
Projects are made up of all the files that go into make a final product. For some languages this can include all sorts of libraries, dependencies, modules, outside programming and more. However, for our purposes, we are not using any of those so the process is very straightforward.
Click on File —> Open
Navigate to the root of your website. If you followed the suggestions in the Folder Structure section, that would be Sites/UML/WebDataImplementation/ongoingWork
Click Finish. If asked, open the project in a new window.
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