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About the Book
If you learned to code using a text editor to understand the fundamentals, you may have missed the value an IDE can bring. As professional developers, we don't need to learn the fundamentals; we need to deliver working applications. An IDE is designed specifically to help us to do this.
IntelliJ IDEA is packed with features that can help developers with almost any task they need to perform. When you're busy writing code, you don't always have time to discover those features. Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA uses two approaches to help newcomers and experienced users alike:
- Tutorials that help you to consolidate your skills by showing you when, why and how to use IntelliJ IDEA features to create working applications.
- A questions-and-answers approach that demonstrates how to solve the problems that professional developers face.
Seeing how to use IntelliJ IDEA from these different angles shows the most useful features and teaches multiple approaches for using these features. This book is full of ah-ha! moments that you can incorporate into your daily routine to help you go faster and to show off to your colleagues. No matter which technologies you use or how you like to work, reading this book will help you find an approach that enables you to work efficiently and productively with IntelliJ IDEA.
This version of Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA will demonstrate everything using the New UI that came into the 2023 versions of IntelliJ IDEA.
About the Authors
Trisha is a Java Champion, author of Head First Java, and was an IntelliJ IDEA Advocate at JetBrains for seven years.
Before working for JetBrains, Trisha built up experience using IntelliJ IDEA while pairing with other, much more experienced, developers. She was blown away by how much you can achieve if you really understand the tool, and horrified that she'd been using IDEs to develop Java applications for ten years and barely scraped the surface of what they could do. This inspired her to move into developer advocacy and give live coding demos of how to be effective with Java while showcasing what you can do with an IDE at the same time.
Trisha's passion is developer productivity, and learning how to make the most of the tools available to you is key to being productive.
Helen is a Java Developer Advocate at JetBrains where she enjoys the variety of tasks that the role affords her. She started her career a long time ago (in a galaxy far far away) as a Java developer using tools such as Vim; IDEs were only just being released back then! After a couple of years, Helen chose to pursue a career in Technical Writing to join her passions for working with developers and content creation.
Helen returned to the world of Java in 2020 when she joined JetBrains as a Java Developer Advocate where she was inspired by what IntelliJ IDEA can do to support developers. She has since rekindled her fondness for Java and delivers blogs, tutorials, videos, talks and apparently a book(!) on everything to do with IntelliJ IDEA and its community.
It's safe to say that Helen is a huge fan of the product and wishes it had existed when she first started working with language!