Programming for Interactivity

Professor Bill TomlinsonTuesday & Wednesday

6:00-7:50pmFall 2005

Graphics Assignments

Dourish Reading

Development Environments

• Eclipse

• Visual Café

• IntelliJ

• Etc.

Benefits

• Debugging tools

• Text coloring

• Many useful tools

Drawbacks

• Lack of transparency of operation

• Speed (sometimes)

• Learning curve

• Expense (sometimes)

Eclipse

• Product of IBM

• Freely available for Mac and PC

What is the funding model?

Useful tools

Select a bunch of text and then hit crtl-slash

• Comments it all out

• (Also uncomments)

Right-click, source, format

Right-click, source, generate getters and setters

Ctrl-space

• Brings up the autocomplete options.

Clicking little red error X in left margin

• Brings up list of what you probably want to do.

• Clicking once on an option shows you what it will do if you choose that option.

Get BasicGraphicsSystem to run through Eclipse.