Internal Links

• Moodle @ Gustavus
• The (a little too long) Guide for Submitting Code Using Moodle is availale on Moodle
• The Guide for Checking Your Grades is availale on Moodle

External Links

• Textbook's website
• Textbook's stdlib
• Textbook's Java code
• COS 126 ftp site
• Unix Tutorial

1. First off, you need to be sure you have JDK 19 (Java Development Kit version 19.0.1) installed on your computer. If you are using a Mac, then you are fine. If you have a Windows computer, then unless you have installed JDK 19, you should do so now (explained in the next step). If you are using Linux or some other operating system, see one of us.

2. If you need to install JDK 19 and are on a non-Mac platform, then go to Oracle's download site and click the Download JDK button (in the Java Platform, Standard Edition box) and follow their instructions. The process is fairly straightforward; if you have any problems/questions see one of us.

3. Once you JDK 19 is installed, you should go to the Eclipse Downloads site. This site should be able to detect your operating system, but you still have some choices. Of the options listed for download there, your choice is between what is probably the first two listed there:
   
   
   • Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers
   • Eclipse IDE for Java Developers
   
   We have installed the Java EE version (which is about twice the size of the other version) in the lab, since that will let us do web applications in other courses. The Java Developers version should be fine for this course. (I do note that it is possible that we will do some web applications in the course, but if so, you can change versions later.) If you have plenty of disk space, you might as well download Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers; otherwise download Eclipse IDE for Java Developers. Either version is fine.
   
   

4. After making the choice above, go ahead and download and install the files. You are probably best off using the default choices they give you for where Eclipse is installed. Again, the process is fairly straightforward; if you have any problems/questions see one of us.

5. Once you have it installed, fire it up and see how/whether it works. I will show you a "Hello World" program during the first lecture.