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Adapted from Professor Wallach's Comp 215 instructions for installing IntelliJ IDEA with Java 8.

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This document walks through all the necessary steps to install IntelliJ properly, including the necessary libraries and plugins to use is with Scala.

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https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/

and download the free ``community edition''. (There's nothing in the ``ultimate'' edition that will make any difference to your work in Comp215, Comp322, Comp311, or (hopefully) most other undergraduate computer science courses.)  Versions are available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. IntelliJ is an example of an integrated development environment (IDE). The other popular Java IDE you may have heard of or used in the past is Eclipse.

If this is the first time you have installed IntelliJ IDEA on your computer, the software will ask you to customize it a bit before starting. You can pick a color scheme that you like, then it will ask you to customize different plugins. Go through these pages and follow these instuctions:

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