Eclipse is an integrated development environment (IDE) which includes several tools to enable you to create, edit, compile, run and debug programs.

Eclipse is one tool we use in this course for writing programs in Java.

Need Java & Eclipse?

In the team labs, Java and Eclipse are already installed. If you would like to install Java and Eclipse on your computer, here are some helpful links:

• Install Java
• Install Eclipse
• Windows Folder Options

Start Using Eclipse

Work your way through the following tutorials to start using Eclipse to create, edit, compile, run and debug your programs.

• Start Eclipse in Lab
• Configure Course Style & Encoding in Eclipse
• Create a Project in Eclipse
• Edit, Compile and Run in Eclipse
• Eclipse Debugger (2 min video)