

Marvel briefly at the many options available, but make sure you select the “Eclipse IDE for Java Developers”. You will be prompted to choose which “flavor” of Eclipse you want: If it’s an archive, open it to find the installer ( Eclipse Installer). zip) or a directly executable installer (. Then click “Download” (may also say “64 bit” or “32 bit”) again:Ĭlick “Download” once more to download the installer for Eclipse:ĭepending upon your OS, this file may be an compressed archive (. Go to Eclipse’s web site ( ), and press the shiny “Download” button:


Then you’ll verify it’s installed and working correctly by creating a small “Hello World” project. In this lab, you’ll download and install the latest version of the Eclipse IDE for Java development.

This lab will walk you through installing Eclipse and verifying that it’s installed correctly on your computer. To help eliminate problems due to incompatible versions of Eclipse, we’ll all be using the same, latest, version of the Eclipse IDE: Eclipse Neon. We’re going to use Eclipse, a free and open-source IDE. In this course (and later ones, such as COMPSCI 187), you’ll be using an integrated development environment (IDE) to write, run, and debug the programs you write. Estimated time to complete: 30 minutes (plus download time)
