Open
Description
Now that IDE articles have been added, the "Running Your First Java Application" section contains 6 articles which may be a bit overwhelming. After all, does it really make sense to let people read through 6 articles about their "First Java Application"? Having a list of articles explaining what's necessary for the "First Java Application" is not giving people motivation to use that programming language.
In order to do this, I have the following suggestions:
- Group the IDE articles to their own article series/tutorial group and keep one link to that tutorial group in the "Running Your First Java Application" section. The short description shown on /learn should tell developers that using an IDE makes writing Java applications easier. I also mentioned this in Eclipse article #77 and similar.
- Move Jshell - The Java Shell Tool to a later section like "Getting to know the JVM". Beginners typically don't use
jshell
. While that tool may be good for demonstration, people starting with Java want to write programs (I think). Trying jshell is probably just confusing. Also, once the new On-Ramp features are finalized, there is even less of a reason for beginners to use jshell as they can experiment with a very simple source code file. Once that is done, it might be a good idea to update Getting Started with Java and/or Launching Single-File Source-Code Programs.
This is a restructuring suggestion similar to #54.
Metadata
Metadata
Assignees
Labels
No labels