This will show you how to start the Eclipse program on the Windows 10 operating system in the lab.
- Look for a link to the Eclipse program in the start menu. Click this link to launch Eclipse and then follow instructions for setting the Workspace location.
- When you launch Eclipse, you will be shown the following splash screen while it loads, which may take several minutes:
- After launching Eclipse for the first time, it will first ask you for a workspace location with an image like the following:
- A workspace is a folder on your local drive (home users) or the network (lab users) where the files created by Eclipse will be stored. When you create a new programming project, several files are created and Eclipse will organize them within a new folder that is within the workspace folder you select. Enter the location (on your home computer or on the network) where you wish to store all files created by Eclipse projects. On CS WINDOWS LAB MACHINES, choose L:\cs200\programs and make it so that this is the default choice. On CS LINUX LAB MACHINES, choose /u/c/s/cslogin/private/cs200/programs.NOTE: /u/c/s/cslogin is different for each user. If your login name is badger, your user folder is found at /u/b/a/badger.
- You will then be presented with a welcome workspace like the following:
You can optionally explore the various icons as you wish. The Welcome screen will be shown unless you uncheck the “Always show Welcome at start up” box. Or, you can open it again via Help → Welcome. When you are done, close the Welcome pane by clicking the X on the tab labeled Welcome (towards the top left of the Eclipse window), then continue to the next step of the tutorial and use the Eclipse IDE to develop your Java programming project. An empty Eclipse workspace looks like the following by default:
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