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What to Expect
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Hello, and welcome back.
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I'm Craig and I'm a developer.
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If you haven't taken the courses
listed in the prerequisite,
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I highly suggest that you do so.
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We're gonna be building on the concepts
that we introduced, as well as revisiting
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and proving some of the projects that we
built together in those previous courses.
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This time around we're going to be
doing something a little different.
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Instead of using Workspaces,
we're gonna move
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development onto our local machines and
learn all about what that entails.
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We've used some of the Java
development programs already, but
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we will now take time to
explore them in more depth.
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Getting your environment up and
running might be a little frustrating.
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Which is one of the reasons I
waited until now to introduce it.
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I wanted to get your feet wet with
the language, and for you to have
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an appreciate of its power, before
setting you off on installation tasks.
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But now we're investing in
a language we like it and
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we are ready to accept the challenge.
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I got an email from a student where she
told me she was falling in love with Java.
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Now this installation process may
require a little bit of that love, but
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I promise you it's well worth it.
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If you already loved the language before,
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wait until you see the power of an IDE,
or Integrated Development Environment.
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For this course, we'll specifically be
exploring the IntelliJ IDEA editor.
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Which is the same editor that is
bundled for Android development.
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I will show off some tricks that can
increase your productivity ten fold.
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IntelliJ also has a tool that will let
you know when you've made mistakes
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in real time.
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Chances are you're gonna
get pretty mad at me for
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not showing this earlier
in our adventures.
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You will definitely appreciate
what it does for you now though.
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So let's get started.
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