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In the rest of this lesson we're going to look at eclipse and

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try to get more familiar with eclipse in a hands on manner

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through a demo. In the demo we will cover some of the

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basic aspects of eclipse like how to run eclipse, how to select

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their workspace, how to create a project, how to create the class

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within the project and so on. I'll also cover some more advanced

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aspects, like how to create builders, run your project within Eclipse, and

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how to use their Eclipse debugger. So let's get to the demo.

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So let's start Eclipse. Eclipse is going to ask me

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for the location of my workspace and in this

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case, I selected a suitable directory and you can

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also use that checkbox on the left to avoid Eclipse

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for asking you again about where to put the

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workspace. And the workspace is basically the place the

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directory. Where, Eclipse will place all of your projects.

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So, now when you start Eclipse, if it's the first

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time you might get this Welcome screen. It's not going to happen

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again on subsequent executions, but I just wanted to make sure

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that I covered all the bases. And so, whatcha want to

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do here is to basically go to the java perspective

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which you can do by clicking over there or you can

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also use the menus. So in this case we will have

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to go to Window, open Perspective, and if the Perspective is

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not here, you'll have to click on Other. And at this point,

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that you can click on Java Perspective, then you

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click okay. And the perspective is basically, the visual work

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space where you will be operating. So, after we selected

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perspective, we can actually close the welcome screen. And here,

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you see that you have this different areas and on

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the left You have the package explorer. This is the

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area where your packages will be, you've got a task list,

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and an outline on the right which we'll cover later.

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And then you have underneath, the bottom, a problems, java

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doc and declaration views and we will see some of

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these views in actions later. And here in the center

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you have the area. Which is called a code editor,

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which is where you'll be writing, editing, and modifying, basically,

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your code. This is where most of the action takes

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place. So let's start by creating a Java project. And

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to do that we can use either the context menu, or

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you can just use the menu, select new Java project.

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You'll be greeted by this, wizard, and. And at this

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point in the wizard, you can select the name of

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your project. I'm just going to call it a very simple way

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my project. And I going to use the default location for

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the project, as you can see it will be placed

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in the work space that I selected before. I'm going to

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also use the default. Java Runtime Environment, which is Java 1.7

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in this case. I'm going to keep the selected default layout

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and the, then I'm going to go to the next step. Here,

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we're first presented with the location of the source code for

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our project. The default is a directory SRC in my project

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and for the output file, the directory bin. So repeat, we're now

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going to change that. Here in case you need other projects to

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build your own, then you can specify them here. Here we

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are building a simple project, so there's no need for that.

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And here we can specify which libraries our project requires. As

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you can see, the Java library's already specified. And you can

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also add other jars, which can even be External jars. And

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finally this is the tab that allows you to specify which

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part of you project. So how your project will be exported,

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so lets not worry about that for now. Lets click finish.

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And as you can see here on the package explorer, my

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project appeared. So now we can open the project by clicking

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on the triangle right next to it, and as you can

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see there is the SRC directory, where my source code will go,

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and there's also an indication that we're using the JRE, so that's

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the Java system directory within our project. And this is just for people

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who are interested in what happens you know, under the hood. So

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if you don't care about that, you can just skip this part. So

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basically here I'm showing you how we can go to the directory

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where the project was created. We can see the bin and src directories.

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And there's also some other files here that you can

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see these 'dot' files that you will not normally, see. And

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those are kind of bookkeeping files. So these are files that

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contain information about your project and that are created automatically by

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Eclipse. And, for example, will have various indication about the

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configuration of the project, some settings and the class path for

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the project. And, as I said, you don't have to worry

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about this if you just want to go Eclipse as you're never

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going to mess with the command line.