We've got a new CS teacher this year, and she wants to teach us how to use a step debugger. But, instead of using eclipse or IntelliJ, she thinks we should all use BlueJ, which is just as bad as fucking JCreator! Why do schools, particularly highschools, use these shitty ass IDEs? IntelliJ has a free community version. And I'm pretty sure that Eclipse is just free. Why the fuck aren't we using either of those?!

I know right! I told my CS teacher about Intellij and she said that students learn better with Dr. Java. Which is a shitty text editor with no live syntax error checking!

@SmoothHacker I think it's something like when they ask you to do it on paper (in exams or something). "Learn it so that you don't need a syntax correction script" or something.

i studied pascal in an oldass console ide in high school, be thankful you learn something actually useful

@SoulSkrix lol, if this was a 9th grade cs1 class I'd understand. But this is CSIII. Most of us are Juniors and seniors, and we've all been through AP comp sci. We're all familiar with OOP, inheritance, etc. Sure, we might need a bit of review from last year, but not so much that we need to use a completely different ide for it.

@SoulSkrix
1) Yes, we've all been through AP. At my school it's required to move on to CS III.

2) For now, we have to use it. I think she just wants us to learn to use a step debugger, which like I said we could just use IntelliJ or Eclipse, and eventually we'll get to use whatever IDE we want. What sucks is that the original CS teacher (who still works there, he just doesn't teach CS3 anymore) had IntelliJ installed on all of the PCs in his room, and his students get to use that.