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Get the software for the class Note: All of the software is free
to download and use for educational purposes.
Java 1.4.2
Software Development Kit - A download from Sun that is the industry
standard Java compiler and runtime environemnt which we use.
Download the Windows Offline Installation for the
SDK (the netbeans cobundle is not needed) assuming that you run Windows
95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP.
Java 1.4.2 Software Development Kit Documentation - Download J2SE 1.4.2 Documentation so you have all of the documentation for Java on your computer. BlueJ - a Integrated Development Environment that will be used in our class at least at the start Java Au Naturel - the text in use for Computer Science AP and part of Computer Science 2 AP (this link will directly download the full text as a .zip file) Adobe Acrobat Reader - So you can read and if you wish, print the text assuming you do not already have this. Winzip 8.1 - This is one of many programs that allows you to handle .zip files. .zip files are files that allow you to shrink the size of files/programs to allow them to transmit quicker over the internet. You will probably need some kind of program to handle .zip files to get this working if you do not already have one. Note: this is for windows machines, many equivilent programs exist for Macintoshes and Linux computers. more
software will be added
during the year as our needs change
Instructions
for installing Java for Windows NT/2000/XP
Take the downloaded file (eg:
j2sdk-1_4_2_01-windows-i586.exe) and run it. If possible have it
install to its default location (c:\j2sdk1.4.2_01). Note: to install this you must have administrative rights.
If you install it to another directory, replace all steps in here where
I reference c:\j2sdk1.4.2_01 with whatever path you installed it to.
Once it is installed, you are not done installing java.. you need to tell windows where to find the java compiler and the java interpreter, along with telling java where all of its add-on libraries can be found. In Windows 2000/XP you can do this through the "system" configuration tool in the control panel. Run system from control panel, and then select the Advanced tab. Click on the environment variables button, and you will see a list of all system variables. Find one called path. Double click on it to edit it, and go to the end of it. Add to the end of the path the following (edit this as is needed based on where you installed java) c:\j2sdk1.4.2_01\bin; Then click on new, call this variable classpath, and for its contents enter in the following: c:\j2sdk1.4.2_01\include;c:\j2sdk1.4.2_01\lib; That should be it. Now you can unzip and install the documentation, and then install BlueJ! Instructions for installing Java for Windows 95/98/ME Take the
downloaded file (eg: j2sdk-1_4_2_01-windows-i586.exe) and run
it. If possible have it install to its default location
(c:\j2sdk1.4.2_01). If you install it to another directory,
replace all steps in here where
I reference c:\j2sdk1.4.2_01 with whatever path you installed it
to.
Once it is installed, you are not done installing java.. you need to tell windows where to find the java compiler and the java interpreter, along with telling java where all of its add-on libraries can be found. In Windows 95/98/ME you can do this by editing the file called c:\autoexec.bat. To do this click on start, and then run. Then type in the following in the text box: notepad c:\autoexec.bat then you hit enter. Once notepad is open you need to add the two following lines to the end of the file: set path=%path%;c:\j2sdk1.4.2_01\bin set classpath=c:\j2sdk1.4.2_01\lib;c:\j2sdk1.4.2_01\include last
updated on 9/07/03
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