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GPA Eclipse Review
October 25, 2019

GPA Eclipse Review

Brandon Hightower | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Eclipse

Eclipse is a program that is not used by many people at our school. Our 6th, 7th, and 8th graders use it in a programming class that we offer at our school. It allows our students to develop programs with the Java programming language. We had used other programs before but found that this was the easiest for our students to use.
  • It is a really good program for developing with Java.
  • The user interface allows for even the most beginner of students to be able to learn.
  • There are times where it can be glitchy, so that could be improved upon.
  • The online support could be a little better.
  • Our goal as a school is to have students learn something, and they definitely have learned things in Eclipse.
  • There have not been any negative impacts on our school with the use of Eclipse.
  • Sublime Text, Notepad++, Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Atom and NetBeans
These are all very similar in what they can do, and so they all stack up very similarly. I personally have found that Eclipse did a little bit better when it came to programming with java and so that is why we went with it for the classes coding in Java.
I gave it this rating because my experience with the support for Eclipse has been both good and bad. There have been times where I have called in and have had a great experience, and there have been times where it has been the complete opposite and I've had to call again to get a different person.

Do you think Eclipse delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Eclipse's feature set?

Yes

Did Eclipse live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Eclipse go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Eclipse again?

Yes

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It is well suited for classroom settings where Java will be taught. We have been using it in our classroom at our school for a few years now and have loved it. It is good for small programs. I think in situations where there are larger programs being built with Java, there are better programs out there.