title: New to Java and Programming: Setting up a development environment on Mac OS X Yosemite
body: <p>I am a student taking an introduction to programming class and Java is the language we are learning. Does anyone have any pointers or recommendations on how to set up a development environment for Mac OS X Yosemite? I configured Terminal to run the latest version of Java in Terminal (<a href="http://gist.github.com/johan/10590467" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://gist.github.com/johan/10590467</a>)
  I would appreciate any other pointers and advice from the programming community. Thanks very much!</p>
  
  <p>Update: 20/03/2015 00:38
  I realized that this question might be better for <a href="https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/">https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/</a>. My apologies. I am still a bit new at using these resources.</p>