Helpful Movies and Presentations

This page has links to several presentations that are designed to help you use some of the tools we have available at WPI. If you have any ideas for others that would be useful here, please email me.

Using SourceForge

• Creating a SourceForge project. This is a short presentation that tells you what you need to know to create a project on the WPI SourceForge system.
• Monitoring SourceForge Projects. This presentation shows you how to effectively monitor a SourceForge project so you are notified when items of interest are added or modified in that project.
• Adding pictures to your SourceForge wiki. This presentations shows you a simple way to add pictures to your SourceForge wiki pages.

Using Eclipse

• Installing Eclipse. This presentation shows you where to get Eclipse and how to install it.
• Creating a project in Eclipse. This presentation shows you how to run Eclipse and create a (Java) project in Eclipse. It also shows you how to import preferences, if you are a member of a team with a set of Eclipse preferences.
• Exporting your Eclipse project. This presentations shows you how to export your project, or part of a project from Eclipse so that others can easily import it.
• Connecting to Subversion with the Subversive Plug-in. This presentation shows you how to connect to a Subversion repository from Eclipse. The WPI SourceForge installation now supports Subversion, which many prefer to CVS for source code management.
• Downloading and setting up the Eclipse C/C++ Development Tools. This shows you how to download the Eclipse CDT, starting from scratch, using the Eclipse 3.2 Callisto distribution.

Software Engineering and OOAD

• Installing and using Visual Paradigm, including how to generate reports.

Miscellaneous

• Using VirtualBox and importing a virtual machine.