Tools

This is the last week fellas, and here I am to talk about our final topic: Tool.

Tool is a progressive rock band based out of Los Angeles with a huge following. Their best album by far is Aenima, followed by Lateralus, 10,000 Days and finally Undertow. I got to see them live once and it was alright. Anyway, tool is also known for...wait, we're supposed to talk about TOOLS!? Dang nabit, alright alright.

This is the last week fellas, and here I am to talk about our final topic: TOOLSSSSSSSSSSSSs.

What sort of tools you might ask? It's obviously going to be software tools, this is a cs blog after all. Anyway, tools are what separates humans from animals. For a computer scientist, we are dependent on so many pieces of software, it isn't even funny. Heck, without electrical engineers creating the hardware, we wouldn't even exist!

So what is the most important tool for any computer scientist? Well, since I clearly represent all computer scientist in the world, the one tool I use every single time are IDEs. (Integrated Development Environment)
Oh ho ho ho, what is an IDE you might ask? Was hoping you would say that. An IDE is a piece of software that helps programmers, well, program. It allows us to edit source code, compile programs, debug our programs, and even interpret them without having use translate it into machine code. They're the every day man's tool box for computer scientist. I will go into detail about two IDEs that I have used in the past/

The first is Blue J! Don't use it, it sucks.

The second is Eclipse! This bad boy not only allows me to write my source code in a clean and slick looking environment, but makes it so much easier to just type code, see what methods a specific object has, and auto corrects any error in my code! How cool is that! Now I'm not a seasoned enough engineer to detail the details as to what makes eclipse shine, but do know that it can program in multiple languages using simple plug ins. So if you're ever thinking of becoming a computer scientist or want to give your own shot at programming, use eclipse! It's great!

And remember, AVOID BLUE J! It sucks almost as bad as the Toronto Blue Jays and Jose Bautista bribing twitter followers.

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