1. CSE 1001 & CSE 1002 STUDENT RESOURCES For JAVA Programming Development William Slavinsky

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS The Java SE Development Kit (JDK)
The Java SE 6 Documentation
Text Editors
XemEmacs ( [22.2])
acs ( [ ])
Irfanview ( [4.10])
Note Pad
Vi Editor
Vim Editor
Word Pad

3. Go to www.java.sun.com/javase/downloads/
The Java SE Development Kit (JDK) YOU MUST SIGN ON TO THE COMPUTER THAT YOU WISH TO INSTALL THIS SOFTWARE AS ADMINISTRATOR.
Go to

4. COMMAND-LINE TOOLS to run APPLICATIONS and APPLETS
Click on START>Run>cmd>OK
Define the path to where your Application or Applet is stored.
To change drive location type the capital letter of the drive, colon, <Enter>. For example: H:<Enter> results …H:\> and a flashing underline symbol awaiting your next entry.
To change a file and go down the tree one level use cd <file name> <Enter>. For example: cd CSE1002Summer2008 <Enter> results … H:\CSE1002Summer2008\> and a flashing underline symbol awaiting your next entry.
To remove a file and go back one level up the tree use cd..<enter>

5. To check for the version of Java installed on your PC
Click on START>Run>cmd>OK
Type: java –version <Enter>

6. To check the path for Java
Click on START>Run>cmd>OK
Type: set<Enter>
CLASSPATH=.;C:\devtools\junit\junit jar;C:\devtools\junitx\junit-3.7.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\lib\ext\QTJava.zip …
Path=c:\... ;c:\devtoools\java\JDK1.6.0_01\bin; … ; c:\program files\java\JDK1.6.0_01\bin …
QTJAVA=C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\lib\ext\QTJava.zip …

7. FIT LAB PCs
The PATH must be set each time a LAB PC is used as follows:
PATH= %PATH%; C:\ProgramFiles\java\jdk1.6.0_01\bin
The”jdk1.6.0_01” must be the version installed on the Lab PC being used.

8. Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)
BlueJ (
DrJava (
Eclipse (
Jcreator (
JGRASP (
NetBeans (
NotePad (

9. Text Editors Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs [22.2])
Xemacs ( [ ])
Irfanview ( [4.10])
Note Pad (
Vi Editor
Vim Editor
Word Pad (Installed with Windows XP)

10. BlueJ*
BlueJ is an IDE developed at a university. It was created specifically for beginning Java students and is available for MacOS, Windows, and other systems at BlueJ requires that you already have Java installed. Windows users should download and install the JDK from Sun, as described previously. MacOS users will already have Java installed by default. Installation instructions are available at the above URL. *From appendix 1 of class text.

11. DrJava
DrJava has BUG that breaks compilation in the Windows exe.

12. Eclipse*
Eclipse is an open-source IDE for Linux, MacOS, and Windows that is available at: Eclipse requires that you already have Java installed. Linux and Windows users should download and install the appropriate JDK from Sun, as described previously. MacOS users will already have Java installed by default. Installation instructions are available at the above URL. *From appendix 1 of class text.

13. Jcreator Jcreator is an IDE created for Windows and is available at:
Jcreator requires that you already have the JDK and the docs (API) downloaded from Sun and installed on your computer prior to installing jcreator.
Installation instructions are available at the above URL.

14. JGRASP
JGRASP is an IDE developed at Auburn University