On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 09:42:20AM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 03/09/17 06:21, Tom Browder wrote: > > I would especially appreciate other ideas for programming editors for > > novice programmers. > > I use and recommend geany. And Eclipse.
+1 geany I use geany for note taking, and when I want to print out text files "nicely". I've also installed geany for others (3+ years happy campers). Perfect for novice programmers. However for Java programming, I always recommend Eclipse - as long as you've got >= 1GiB RAM, Eclipse is fine for novices, the bees knees for Java GUI IDEs, -and- has C and C++ support these days (besides a zillion other languages). I also have Eclipse installed, but for day to day coding I actually prefer vim for two main reasons: 1) The "extreme lightweight" feel of vim (and geany for that matter which I alias to "n" for "n"otepad (I've changed "notepad"s a few times over the years, and keep the same alias of course...)) - opening a file always seems close to instantaneous. 2) The mindset, and consequent feeling engendered within me, from cmd line based edit-compile-run cycle development. The only place I still intend to personally use Eclipse is either developing a plugin for others to use, or developing actual GUI front ends to software I've written (I'm confident one or both of these will happen one day :) Good luck,