Week One Assignment

Configure your jump drive

1. Put your jump drive in a USB Port
2. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Performance and Maintenance - Note If you do not see Performance and Maintenance, go to step 3. Performance and Maintenance appears in Control Panel only if you use Category view. If you use Classic view, Performance and Maintenance does not appear
3. Click Administrative Tools, double-click Computer Management, and then click Disk Management in the left pane
4. Right-click the Drive that represents the jump drive (Its the one that is 988 MB using a FAT File System) and select Change Drive Letter and Paths
5. Select Change and change the letter from what it is to P (For Programming). This will make sure we all have the same drive letter assignment for the jump drive
6. Windows will warn you that changing the letter might cause problems with programs on this disk (There aren't programs on this disk yet, so its OK). Hit Yes.
7. Close Computer Management
8. Go into Windows Explorer (Windows Key + E) and right click on the P Drive and select Rename
9. Rename the drive to Programming

Check if you have Java Installed and install it if necessary

1. Visit this site to test if you have java installed.
2. If you have Java installed it will say so. If you don't I have included it on the jump drive under the Java folder. Double click the jdk-1_5_0_10-windows-i586-p.exe file in the Java folder if you don't have it installed
3. It doesn't matter at this point what version of Java you have as long as you have it
4. Once you have Java installed, delete the Java folder on your Programming drive

Start Eclipse for the first time and configure your workspace

1. Start up Eclipse by double clicking the shortcut found on your Jump Drive on the P Drive called StartEclipse.exe
2. Eclipse will prompt you for a workspace. Since this is our first time we need to setup the location of where all our code will be. Enter the following:
   P:\Eclipse\Workspaces\YourName
   For example: P:\Eclipse\Workspaces\GordonGridley
3. Hit OK. Eclipse will load up
4. A Welcome Page comes up. Click on the X on the Welcome Tab
5. The View will now have four sections (Project Explorer, Outline, Tasks and in the top right a blank section). Right click anywhere in the Project Explorer Block and select New -> Project
6. Type in Java Project, then select the Java Project from the list and hit Next
7. For Project Name enter: HiLoGame and hit Next button
8. On the next window leave everything as is, and hit Finish Button
9. Eclipse will ask you whether a new perspective should be used (Since you are new to Eclipse it asks dumb questions, but it won't keep asking you these questions if you tell it not to). Select the Remember my decision checkbox, and hit Yes
10. Close Eclipse. It will ask if you're sure. Check the Always exit without prompt checkbox and hit OK