- Netbeans is a IDE or intergrated development enviroment
- It can speed up development by managing your code and allowing you access to tools such as debugging.
- You can download netbeans from the netbeans website or as part of your JDK bundle.
- A java project is a collection of folders and files and is not a single file.
- The src folder stores your java code.
- The dist folder stroes your class files.
- Build means compile in netbeans speak.
- When you run code it will automatically compile it.
- Autocomplete shows what methods are available for a class or object.
- Debugging allows you to step through your code and find bugs.
- You can set up watches to evaluate expressions or variables.
- A breakpoint is used during debugging and will stop execution so you can inspect the current state.
- [F8] and [F7] can be used to step through code once it has reached a break point.