Installing Eclipse
The first thing you need to do to get started is install Eclipse. Eclipse is available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.
Getting ready
Point your browser to http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ to download Eclipse for your operating system. You'll see that there are a lot of available downloads. There are versions of Eclipse for Java developers, C/C++ developers, JavaScript, and so on. Pick the Eclipse Classic 4.2 version, and download the 32-bit or the 64-bit versions if your operating system supports it.
How to do it...
Once you've downloaded Eclipse, you can extract the contents of the .zip
file. Drag the eclipse folder to your Applications
folder on Mac OS X, or the Program Files
folder on Windows. If you launch Eclipse for the first time, you'll get a message that you need to select a workspace. Eclipse will give you a default location for this folder; you should use this one if you aren't sure what you are doing. If you click OK, you'll find a folder named workspace
in...