![]() ![]() On a Mac, this will be located in the Eclipse menu in the top-of-the-screen menubar on Windows, it will be located under the Window menu at the top of the Eclipse window. (Do you remember where you installed it?) You should again arrive at the Welcome screen. Quit Eclipse using the appropriate menu item. After a bit more loading, you’ll see the default Eclipse “Welcome” screen:Įclipse has been installed. “My drive crashed” won’t be acceptable as an excuse in this class, except as part of the sentence, “My drive crashed when my car crashed into the power substation supplying several of Google’s data centers during an unscheduled surge protector downtime, leading to an unanticipated power spike that destroyed the data centers, caused massive data loss, and made national news.”Ĭhoose an appropriate directory to store your workspace and click OK. In any event, it’s 2016: storage and bandwidth are virtually free. Make sure you know how to recover from a backup before you need it. OS X has Time Machine Windows has Windows Backup, and there are myriad third-party backup utility vendors. Make sure your Eclipse workspace is being backed up. Other cloud storage providers such as Box and Dropbox provide similar functionality.Įnable automatic backups to an external drive, or sign up for a backup service. On my Mac, this directory is /Users/liberato/Google Drive/. When this is app is running, any changes you make to files in your local Google Drive directory will be uploaded to your Google Drive (and sent to any other of your devices that are also running the application). Further, you can install the Drive application ( ). Sign up for a cloud-based storage service, sync that storage with your local computer, and place your Eclipse workspace in this synced directory.Īs a member of the UMass community, you have access to Google Drive with basically unlimited storage space through Apps at UMass. I strongly, strongly, strongly suggest you do one (or ideally both) of the following: After a brief loading screen, you should see a window prompting you to choose a workspace:Ī brief but important digression: The place you choose for the Eclipse workspace is where all of your work for this course will go. ![]() If all goes well, you should see something like this: In either case, make sure you note where it’s going so you can find it! The installer will download and install Eclipse, and this process can take a few minutes. The default installation directory is fine (on my Mac, this is /Users/liberato/eclipse/java-neon, that is, in eclipse/java-neon inside my home directory), or you can place it in whatever directory you choose. Marvel briefly at the many options available, but make sure you select the “Eclipse IDE for Java Developers”. You will be prompted to choose which “flavor” of Eclipse you want: If it’s an archive, open it to find the installer ( Eclipse Installer). zip) or a directly executable installer (. Go to Eclipse’s web site ( ), and press the shiny “Download” button:Ĭlick “Download” again to download the installer for Eclipse:ĭepending upon your OS, this file may be an compressed archive (. (optional but recommended) Set up and use cloud-based storage and/or regular backups of your COMPSCI 190D work.Create and execute a simple “Hello World” project.Configure Eclipse to use the Java 8 environment.Install a working Eclipse IDE (or show you have access to one).Launch Eclipse on the computer in the computer classroom, skip down to Launching Eclipse, and start by choosing a workspace. You will still need to perform the configuration and project creation steps detailed in this lab and submit the screenshot to receive credit. If you use a UMass IT Computer Classroom rather than your own computer, you may use the version of Eclipse installed there, which changes as IT updates the software in the computer classrooms. Finally, you’ll take a screenshot to submit as proof you completed the lab. Then you’ll verify it’s installed and working correctly by creating a small “Hello World” project. In this lab, you’ll download and install the latest version of the Eclipse IDE for Java development. This lab will walk you through installing Eclipse and verifying that it’s installed correctly on your computer. To help eliminate problems due to incompatible versions of Eclipse, we’ll all be using the same, latest, version of the Eclipse IDE: Eclipse Neon. We’re going to use Eclipse, a free and open-source IDE. In this course (and later ones, such as COMPSCI 187), you’ll be using an integrated development environment (IDE) to write, run, and debug the programs you write. Estimated time to complete: 30 minutes (plus download time)
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