1. Teaching Programming with NetBeans With Ken Fogel
Got a Gig Teaching Java? You Should Be Using Apache NetBeans in the Classroom 
Teaching Programming with NetBeans
With Ken Fogel

2. Reason #1: Uses the JDK

3. Reason #2: Projects are stored in a single folder

4. Reason #3: Maven Ready!

5. Reason #4: Git Ready

6. Reason #5: Plugins can be easily written

7. Reason #6: More Than An IDE, its also a platform
PraxisLIVE - Hybrid Visual Live Programming
Reason #6: More Than An IDE, its also a platform

8. Reason #7: Multi-language support

9. Reason #8: Easy integration with database and web servers

10. Reason #9: IoT Friendly

11. Reason #10: Its part of the Apache Foundation!

12. Who am I?
Co-Chair & Co-Program Coordinator of the Computer Science Technology Program at Dawson College, Montreal
Instructor in the Computer Institute of Concordia University
Blogger at and on DZone
Frequent Tweeter on
Speaker at JavaOne from
Speaker at Code One in 2018
Speaker at ApacheCon in 2018
Organizer of DawsCon, free one day conference in Montreal on January 11, 2019