IntelliJ IDEA and Eclipse Cheat Sheet for Java Developers

The power packed cheat sheet to improve your productivity

Hello guys, how are you doing? This one is a short post but a powerful one.

Today I am going to share both Eclipse and IDEA keyboard shortcut cheat sheets and some courses you can take to level up your IDE skills.

Since IDE is our most important tool, spending time to learning it mater, I would rather say, mastering IDE is quite important to become a 10X developer in your company.

In the past, I have shared courses on Java collections, Stream API, Design Patterns, Concurrency, Java Performance, and in this article, I am going to share not just cheat sheet but also important resources for you to learn these Java IDEs in depth

So, let’s go and check these cheat sheet

IntelliJ IDEA cheat sheet

Here is a the IntelliJ IDEA cheat sheet with keyboard shortcuts for navigation, editing code, code generation, searching and lot more.

IDEA is no doubt the most popular and powerful IDE for Java development and it is now also supporting AI tools for example, GitHub CoPilot is supported.

It also got many great extensions like CodeRabbit for code review and other AI tool extensions which is only going to make IDEA even more powereful.

And, here are few online courses you can take to learn tips and trips to take your IDEA skills to next level.

1. IntelliJ IDEA Tricks to Boost Productivity for Java Devs

2. Refactoring Java with IntelliJ IDEA [Udemy]

3. Java Debugging With IntelliJ IDEA

4. Java and Android IntelliJ Wizardry Lite with Heinz Kabutz (FREE)

5. Building Microservices with Spring Boot & Spring Cloud

6. IntelliJ IDEA for Java & Kotlin Developers

7. Master IntelliJ Idea | Become a Productive Java Developer

Most of them are Udemy courses so they are also very affordable and in fact one of them is completely free.

By the way, if you are new to IDEA then I also recommend you to first start with a video course like Master IntelliJ Idea | Become a Productive Java Developer to learn the essential features of IDEA. This will help you to use the IDE better and also to remember these shortcuts better.

Now, let’s see the Eclipse Cheat Sheet, my most loved and used Java IDE. I have used Eclipse for almost 15+ years, that’s a long time

Eclipse IDE Keyboard Shortcuts

This cheat sheet is also full of keyboard shortcuts for navigating the editor, finding and searching files, and editing.

And, here are few online courses you can take to learn tips and trips to take your Eclipse IDE skills to next level.

1. Eclipse Tutorial For Beginners: Learn Java IDE in 10 Steps (Free)

2. Beginners Eclipse Java IDE Training Course

3. Eclipse Debugging Techniques And Tricks

These courses are also very affordable and first one is completely free. I highly recommend to take these courses to learn Eclipse better and improve your productivity.

That’s all guys. As I have promised at the start, this will be a short post. So I give your time back to you. I can’t stress enough to learn about the tools we use on our daily basis.

Most of us use only 10% of the tool and by learning these shortcuts and going through the courses, you can make most of IDEA and Eclipse in your daily Java coding.

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