I have developed (and will add to throughout the term) a set of focused tutorials to (hopefully) address some of the immediate concerns you may have.
| 11/06/06 | How do I generate JavaDoc | How to generate HTML documentation based upon the special /** .. */ tags you are embedding within your programs? |
| Running Eclipse in Labs | How do I run Eclipse in the lab? | |
| First Example | How do I write my first Java class? How do I start from scratch and write my first program? |
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| Can't find Static variables in debugger? | Can't see static variables in the debugging variables window pane? Try this tutorial. | |
| Showing source code for JDK classes | Want to find information about the JDK source code, such as java.lang.String? Try this! | |
| Using CVS update to retrieve the latest version of a project | I used CVS to retrieve an example, but the professor seems to have changed the example since I checked it out. | |
| Accessing CVS | I need to add a CVS repository to my workspace so I can get the examples the professor keeps talking about. | |
| Changing Password within SourceForge | This is needed in the RARE case that you have a sourceforge account BUT you are not able to download the examples from within Eclipse. | |
| Making an Eclipse project use JDK 1.5 syntax | By default, your Eclipse projects may be configured to use the Java language syntax from version 1.4 and earlier. To use the latest Java, you will need to upgrade projects individually. This shows you how. |