Becoming a Productive Developer with IntelliJ IDEA
Andrey Cheptsov, JetBrains
Groovy, Grails and Spring
JVM Language Statistics in IntelliJ IDEA
Groovy is the second most used JVM language in IntelliJ IDEA
Web Frameworks Statistics in IntelliJ IDEA
Spring MVC and Grails are the mainstream web frameworks in IntelliJ IDEA
Productivity Definition
● What is productivity?● Why is it so important?● Two camps: Language mavens vs Tools
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Learning curve
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One does not simply
BECOME A PRODUCTIVEDEVELOPER IN ONE DAY
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I’m a God with a plain editor!
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You are here
Kay, give the kid a weapon
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You’ve just downloaded IntelliJ IDEA
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I just did my first refactoring. Wow!
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That’s what I call Smart completion!
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Oh my god, I can undo refactorings, too!
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Beginner badge unlocked!
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How did I live without Syntax-aware selection before?
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Refactoring works even without any selection!
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I can create stuff without touching the mouse
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Did you know that you get more results if you press code completion twice?
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Why didn’t anyone tell me about the File structure popup??
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IntelliJ IDEA Fan badge unlocked!
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Did you see that? It shows recently edited files!
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Have you ever tried navigating between a class and its test with just a shortcut?
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Look, ma, no mouse!
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Structural search and replace is what makes you feel powerful
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If you can keep it under control!
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IntelliJ IDEA Jedi badge unlocked!
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Jedi
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You can hardly see the Earth now!
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I’m a God with a plain editor!
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Because of clouds
Did you know that Emmet is really awesome?
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I can do dependency and data flow analysis
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The column selection mode makes me feel like a ninja!
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Don't tell anyone it provides code completion as well
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I don’t need the Project tree anymore!
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I use IntelliJ IDEA’s early preview builds for my work
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IntelliJ IDEA Fellow badge unlocked!
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Fellow
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IntelliJ IDEA Fellow badge unlocked!
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There is no way back now
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This is that feeling when you run IntelliJ IDEA from inside IntelliJ IDEA
I have just forked IntelliJ IDEA on GitHub
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Fellow
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IntelliJ IDEA Hacker badge unlocked!
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I have just fixed my first issue by myself instead of reporting it
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Master badge unlocked!
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FellowHacker
Master
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Oh my god, there are two more code completions I didn’t know. Jesus!
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FellowHacker Master
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General milestones
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Any tool gives you a quick start-up in the beginning
Then you should invest your time to climb higher
Here you become productive
Never stop perfecting
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How can IntelliJ IDEA affect your productivity?
● Less effort to write new code● Navigate over code quicker● Fewer mistakes● Less routine● Less time on doing refactoring● Less effort for interacting with other tools● No task switching
Why is it worth to invest into learning superior tools?
Time
Quality Money
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Demo time
Develop with Pleasure!
Thanks!
