1. Copyright © 2006-2014 – Curt Hill Files to Hand-In And other things you should know

2. Windows The design and evolution of Windows is to make the computer more user friendly –The MacIntosh is similar in this respect It is intended for the –Computer illiterate –Computer semi-literate –And not for the computer sophisticated Developers (you) are supposed to be able to see through the lies that Windows tells us Copyright © 2006-2014 – Curt Hill

3. Developers Those who: –Design, write, test and document programs Developers use programs to make programs –Programs are also known as applications The person who designs a car must know more about the car and the highway than those who merely drive –Same with programmers Copyright © 2006-2014 – Curt Hill

4. Lies Windows tells The desktop is the root of the computer –Actually the desktop is a subdirectory on the C disk Documents (files) are the center of the world –The files are worthless without an application to manipulate them It also conceals files that we are interested in Copyright © 2006-2014 – Curt Hill

5. Files Files need three pieces to identify them Directory – this includes the drive File name Extension Windows Explorer or My Computer will hide the extension by default We need to expose it Copyright © 2006-2014 – Curt Hill

6. The Problem The Document Centric approach is part of our problem Windows believes that only it needs to know file extensions This is true if all we want to do is modify the files Thus it hides extensions that are registered to particular programs Not true for us, since we need to email them Copyright © 2006-2014 – Curt Hill

7. Preview The next several screens shows how to click My Computer and Windows Explorer Then ask it to show extensions of registered programs First two are using My Computer Copyright © 2006-2014 – Curt Hill

8. Clicking My Computer Copyright © 2006-2014 – Curt Hill

9. Clicking on a disk Copyright © 2006-2014 – Curt Hill

10. Starting Windows Explorer Copyright © 2006-2014 – Curt Hill

11. Explorer Selecting Tools Copyright © 2006-2014 – Curt Hill

12. Commentary Windows Explorer and My Computer are the same program They may change their view somewhat They both have a Tools menu item Inside that is a Folder Options sub menu Click on the center tab to get the following: Copyright © 2006-2014 – Curt Hill

13. The View Tab Copyright © 2006-2014 – Curt Hill

14. Windows 8 Copyright © 2006-2014 – Curt Hill Click the View menu to see this

15. Copyright © 2006-2014 – Curt Hill CheckBox The important check box is labeled: Hide extensions for known file types By default it is checked This means that most of you will send me one or more files that I do not need and not send me the ones needed Unchecking it is persistant

16. Finding the correct files Eclipse will show most of the directory, and name in the title bar In the next screen this is demonstrated What it does not show is the path to the Eclipse directory The name it shows is relative to the Eclipse workspace directory –Not necessarily where Eclipse was installed Copyright © 2006-2014 – Curt Hill

17. Eclipse Copyright © 2006-2014 – Curt Hill

18. Where is the Eclipse directory? This can be found using File/Switch workspace Observe the following two screen shots Copyright © 2006-2014 – Curt Hill

19. Changing workspaces Copyright © 2006-2014 – Curt Hill

20. Or not Copyright © 2006-2014 – Curt Hill