At my school we programmed with BluJ and then switched to IntelliJ mid semester. I felt like I went from driving a station wagon to a brand new Tesla.

At my high school, we used JCreator for a while, and some of us started using IntelliJ because it's just the best, but our teacher started telling us to use BluJ because it has a debugger. Felt like going from a nice Tesla to a toy Corolla.

@Sydochen man I feel your pain. The only reason we’re using BluJ is because my professor is friends with the people who made BluJ

BlueJ is great for teaching. We used it in high school ~12 years ago. By being able to look into objects, it was easy to learn a lot about data structures. Saved me a lot of time during university.