Parkland College 2400 West Bradley Avenue, Champaign, Illinois 61821

Csc 123 Computer Science I, Programming in Java

Your Java Burn 2006 CD

Fall 2006

The programs on the CD:

Jens File Editor: Optional. This is a simple text editor customized for Java.  Its advantage over Notepad is that it can open multiple files at once and it has a nice visible tab for each file.  It is included only for your convenience if you want a slightly better text editor than Notepad for writing programs to compile and run using the command line.  Neither it nor Notepad willbe used extensively in the course.

Java Platform 2 Standard Edition Software Development Kit Version 5.0, Build 8: This is the latest version of the command line version of Java.  It is a very dependable, if somewhat old fashioned, way to create Java programs.  ???? <<< Scott - check this !! >>> You should install this before you install JCreator below.

Java Documentation Standard Edition Version 5.0: This documentation is in html format.  It is Sun's official documentation, the same that we use in class.  Install this after the Java Software Development Kit above.

JCreator: This is the best Integrated Development Environment we have found.  It is completely self contained, with all of standard Java included, plus it is freeware.  Highly recommended. 
 

Installing the programs:

Jens File Editor: (optional)  Simply copy the entire JensFileEditor directory to the hard drive on your computer.  Its location on the hard drive will not matter.  Then create a shortcut to the jfe.exe file inside the directory on your desktop.  Double click that shortcut icon and Jens File Editor will start.  It is that simple.

Java Platform 2 Standard Edition Software Development Kit Version 5.0: You should install this program before the programs below.  To install, copy jdk-1_5_0_08-windows-i586-p.exe to your hard drive and run it by double clicking.  It will install all of the Standard Edition Java programs onto your computer.  Unless you are facile with Windows installations, just use the default directories suggested by the installation program.  For more information see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/install.html

Java Documentation (Version 5.0): Install this after the Software Development Kit above, because it should go into the directories that the programs below create.  Copy the file named jdk-1_5_0-doc.zip to the jdk1.5.0_08 directory created by the installation program in the previous installation.  Unzip the file and make sure it creates and fills a  docs  directory immediately inside the jdk1.5.0_08 directory.  For more information see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/install-docs.html   

JCreator: Copy jcrea350_013.zip to a new directory you create on your hard drive.  You may place the directory anywhere on the drive and you may name it anything you want.  Unzip the two files in jcrea350_013.zip into that directory.  Then double click setup.exe, which is one of the two files.  Follow the standard Windows installation program to install JCreator.   JCreator installation rarely causes any problems.