[gizdan]

When we were taught Java at university, we were taught it using BlueJ because it could visualise objects and had some other beginner friendly features. For our assignments we were given the choice of using BlueJ to write the code, or JEdit. Considering BlueJ was horrible to use for me as a power user and pretty decent at PHP back then, I struggled really hard. JEdit was came to the rescue. It certainly wasn't the best, but it good enough and loved it.