Eclipse Survey

[magomago]

I have a survey for a class that I want to ask some people on Anandtech. The mods graciously allowed me to post directly in Programming so I bypass the crap that goes on in OT and get a targetted audience =) I do hope I can get everyone's support

If anyone has used eclipse before Its a series of 12 simple questions ranging from prior programming experience to what you like(or dislike) about special features in eclipse.

Here are the questions, and I would highly appreciate anyone and everyone's effort to participate providing you have Eclipse experience. I'm sure if you are visiting AT you haev a few minutes to spare

===INF 219 - Survey Questions (For Eclipse Users ONLY)===
[*]1. How long have you been programming?
[*]2. What is your occupation? (i.e. student, software programmer, tester)
[*]3. What programming languages do you primarily code in?
[*]4. How long have you been using Eclipse?
[*]5. What tools/features in Eclipse do you use on a regular basis?
[*]6. Have you ever used the scrapbook function? If yes, please answer the remaining six questions.
[*]7. How often do you use the scrapbook?
[*]8. What do you primarily use the scrapbook for?
[*]9. What do you like about the scrapbook?
[*]10. What do you dislike about the scrapbook?
[*]11. What are some improvements you would like to see in it?
[*]12. Would you recommend this feature to others?

If anyone has any questions please feel free to post in here so I can clarify anything!

 

[brikis98]

1. How long have you been programming?

~9 years

2. What is your occupation? (i.e. student, software programmer, tester)

Software Engineer

3. What programming languages do you primarily code in?

Java these days for backend, although in the past I've used many others, including C, C++, VB and so on. I also use xhtml, css, javascript, velocity, and a bunch of other stuff for front end.

4. How long have you been using Eclipse?

since ~2005

5. What tools/features in Eclipse do you use on a regular basis?

Not sure what's considered a tool or feature. But I make reasonably good use of various functionality, inlcuding alt + space (code completion), ctrl + shift + o (organize imports), ctrl + shift + f (format code), ctrl + shift + r (open resource), f3 (see declaration), f4 (see type hierarchy). I use it to generate basic getters and setters, I've setup the code formatter just how i like it, I use the automatic try/catch/throws adder, the search functionality (incl highlighting). I use the various perspectives and plugins, such as the CVS plugin (and associated CVS repository explorer, history view, compare feature), a velocity plugin, a shell script plugin, findbugs, jtest, junit plugin, debugger for external processes and TONS more i'm sure i've forgotten.

6. Have you ever used the scrapbook function? If yes, please answer the remaining six questions.

Nope, this is the first time I've heard of it, but it seems quite useful.

7. How often do you use the scrapbook?
8. What do you primarily use the scrapbook for?
9. What do you like about the scrapbook?
10. What do you dislike about the scrapbook?
11. What are some improvements you would like to see in it?
12. Would you recommend this feature to others?

 

[hooflung]

# 1. How long have you been programming?

12 years

# 2. What is your occupation? (i.e. student, software programmer, tester)

Web Developer and DBA

# 3. What programming languages do you primarily code in?

PHP, Ruby, Python and C

# 4. How long have you been using Eclipse?

3-4 years

# 5. What tools/features in Eclipse do you use on a regular basis?

Rad Rails, but I stopped using Eclipse because its too slow and that pisses me off

# 6. Have you ever used the scrapbook function? If yes, please answer the remaining six questions.

Nope, see question 5

 

[ajchun]

# 1. How long have you been programming?
~3 years professionally

# 2. What is your occupation? (i.e. student, software programmer, tester)
software development engineer

# 3. What programming languages do you primarily code in?
java

# 4. How long have you been using Eclipse?
10 months

# 5. What tools/features in Eclipse do you use on a regular basis?
(copying from above post)
alt + space (code completion), ctrl + shift + o (organize imports), ctrl + shift + r (open resource)
refactor (alt+ctrl+r) , quick fix (ctrl+1), the ctrl+left click navigation, ctrl+shift+g (finds the code that uses/calls the method or var)
junit and findbugs

# 6. Have you ever used the scrapbook function? If yes, please answer the remaining six questions.
no

 

[mundane]

YGPM

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

# 1. How long have you been programming?
Started when I was 11 or so. 20 yeasrs by that standard (holy crap). Or 7 years professionally.

# 2. What is your occupation? (i.e. student, software programmer, tester)
software engineeer with some leadership roles tossed in

# 3. What programming languages do you primarily code in?
Java and C/C++

# 4. How long have you been using Eclipse?
3 years or so

# 5. What tools/features in Eclipse do you use on a regular basis?
The CVS interface. Auto-complete. Not sure what you are going after. For the most part, I use the standard install of Eclipse for Java. I uyse any feature that makes my job easier. The big extra is JUnit I'd suppose.

# 6. Have you ever used the scrapbook function? If yes, please answer the remaining six questions.
No. never even heard of it so that means I never thought to myself that a tool that does X (whatever scrapbook is) is something I really need.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

I just took a look at scrap book. Due to my level of expertise, I usually only need to do proof of concept type work that does usually require a new project.

 

[CityShrimp]

# 1. How long have you been programming?
around 5 years

# 2. What is your occupation? (i.e. student, software programmer, tester)
student

# 3. What programming languages do you primarily code in?
java

# 4. How long have you been using Eclipse?
around 3 years

# 5. What tools/features in Eclipse do you use on a regular basis?
Nothing. Only use it to compile codes

# 6. Have you ever used the scrapbook function? If yes, please answer the remaining six questions.
Yes

# 7. How often do you use the scrapbook?
Only tried it once

# 8. What do you primarily use the scrapbook for?
Didn't find a use for it at the time, so have not touched it since.

# 9. What do you like about the scrapbook?
Simple and quick to use

# 10. What do you dislike about the scrapbook?
Lack basic functionalities. And it's annoying to have to highlight the code to run it

# 11. What are some improvements you would like to see in it?
Improve user-friendliness

# 12. Would you recommend this feature to others?
If it gets an update. But currently, it's too much of a hassle to use.

 

[xtknight]

I had used it briefly in my AP Comp Sci class for Java.

# 1. How long have you been programming?

About 10 years, started with VB when I was young.

# 2. What is your occupation? (i.e. student, software programmer, tester)

Software programmer, Microsoft Office macros primarily.

# 3. What programming languages do you primarily code in?

VB6, and C# .NET.

# 4. How long have you been using Eclipse?

Not very long. When I was doing Java in AP Comp Sci I had used it for that year.

# 5. What tools/features in Eclipse do you use on a regular basis?

The code editor. Like hooflung, I found it extremely slow at least on the MacBook I was using at the time.

# 6. Have you ever used the scrapbook function? If yes, please answer the remaining six questions.

No.

 

[CityShrimp]

Ok. I tried using scrapbook again, and it doesn't seem like it changed much from the past. The old problems are still there. I think I would use it to try out some new code snippets though. Doesn't seem like it'll be good for anything else anyways.

 

[magomago]

Hi everyone thanks for the replies. As it stands I need about 5ish more responses so if you know anyone on AT who programs and has used eclipse, but hasn't replied can you ask if they wouldn't mind to check it out =) I would really appreciate it. Anymore than what I need is still great because the more data gives me a greater understanding and allows the data to be used more confidently, but I'm really hoping to hit around 13 responses or so.