I am new to Java from c and I have been trying to familiarise myself with the language. I am trying to use the lombok plugin from IntelliJ IDEA but it does not seem to work for me at all:
Go to either 
For Gradle:
Paste the text block into your pom.xml or build.gradle like so(don't forget to click the M that shows up that's hovered over by the cursor, this updates your project with the new dependency so you can use actually use lombok):
Now you should be able to use Lombok and make use of all it's boilerplate goodness :)
Let me know if this helped or if you got stuck on any of the step!