Some useful navigation shortcuts:
IntelliJ IDEA Code Navigation
This video (from LaunchCode) gives a pretty good explanation of how to use the IntelliJ IDEA debugger.
This video explains how to automate the 'Extract parameter' refactoring using IntelliJ IDEA. Most other refactorings available work similarly. i.e. select the code to refactor
→ find the refactoring in the context menu
or use the keyboard shortcut
.
Here's another video explaining how to change a method signature as part of refactoring.