Developer Papercuts

We recently discussed with several people the fact the Eclipse IDE makes coding so simple that people actually lose the ability to write (Java) code without an IDE.

So for the next few weeks I will post a few simple non-IDE Java challenges.

This is the beginners Java challenge of the week:

Take a piece of paper and write down a Java program which prints the String “Hello World” to the console. Use packages.

Once done, type your code into Eclipse and check if your paper Java version was correct.

Were you successful?

We recently discussed with several people the fact the Eclipse IDE makes coding so simple that people actually lose the ability to write (Java) code without an IDE. So for the next few weeks I will post a few simple non-IDE Java challenges. This is the beginners Java challenge of the week: Take a piece ...