-Before we get started using the Temperature Control Lab, it's important that we get a good feel for the tools we will use to program. This course will use the Java programming language. You can write a Java code in any text editor, however, out of convenience, most programmers prefer using an IDE (Integrated Development Environment). An IDE gives you a place to both write your code **and** run your code in the same program. In addition, IDE's can include other features that are useful to programmers like debuggers to help figure out what is wrong when their program doesn't run like they expected. There are many IDE options for you to consider. Three popular IDEs are [Eclipse](https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/release/kepler/sr1/eclipse-ide-java-developers), [IntelliJ]([https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/](https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/)), and [Visual Studio]([https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/)). Each of them has free download options that anyone can use. For this course, we will be using Eclipse, although most full-feature IDEs will let you do everything we will do here.
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