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

I’m a God with a plain editor!

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You’ve just downloaded IntelliJ IDEA

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I just did my first refactoring. Wow!

I’m a God with a plain editor!

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That’s what I call Smart completion!

I’m a God with a plain editor!

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Oh my god, I can undo refactorings, too!

I’m a God with a plain editor!

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Beginner badge unlocked!

I’m a God with a plain editor!

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How did I live without Syntax-aware selection before?

I’m a God with a plain editor!

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Refactoring works even without any selection!

I’m a God with a plain editor!

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I can create stuff without touching the mouse

I’m a God with a plain editor!

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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??

I’m a God with a plain editor!

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Beginner

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IntelliJ IDEA Fan badge unlocked!

I’m a God with a plain editor!

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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!

I’m a God with a plain editor!

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Jedi

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You can hardly see the Earth now!

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Jedi

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

I’m a God with a plain editor!

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The column selection mode makes me feel like a ninja!

I’m a God with a plain editor!

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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!

I’m a God with a plain editor!

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I use IntelliJ IDEA’s early preview builds for my work

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IntelliJ IDEA Fellow badge unlocked!

I’m a God with a plain editor!

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Fellow

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IntelliJ IDEA Fellow badge unlocked!

I’m a God with a plain editor!

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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

I’m a God with a plain editor!

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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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Jedi

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!