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Creating a Java project in IntelliJ IDEA

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Creating a Java project in IntelliJ IDEA

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- [Instructor] As I've shown previously, you can code in a simple text editor and compile and run your Java classes from the command line, but most Java developers use integrated development environments or IDEs. I'll be using IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition, which is available for free from JetBrains. First, I'm going to look at my exercise file structure. These exercise files are available for download from the LinkedIn Learning website. From the exercise files folder, I'll go down to one of the chapters. I'll choose chapter four, and then I'll choose the exercise files for video four in chapter four, and I'll see a directory there named converting numbers. Under that, there's a source directory, spelled SRC, and then under there's some sub directories that are the Java package. I'll talk about packages later in the course. And then finally, there's a Java file. I can see by just pressing the space bar on Mac OS that it's a beginning main class. Now, to create a project that uses…

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