Open Safari and head to Oracle’s Downloads page.Click on Java SE. Click on the Download icon under NetBeans with JDK 8. You’ll want a programming environment, and Netbeans is a good one.

Eclipse supports a wide range of project developments, including C/C++, PHP, Python and Perl via extensible plug-ins. The IDE is cross-platform and runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

Martin Sawicki, a program manager with the Microsoft Open Technologies Group, blogs about a new release of the Azure Toolkit for Eclipse that now supports Linux and Mac platforms. The March 2015 ...