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Programming for Interactivity. Professor Bill Tomlinson Tuesday & Wednesday 6:00-7:50pm Fall 2005. Graphics Assignments. Dourish Reading. Development Environments. Eclipse Visual Café IntelliJ Etc. Benefits. Debugging tools Text coloring Many useful tools. Drawbacks.
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Programming for Interactivity Professor Bill Tomlinson Tuesday & Wednesday 6:00-7:50pm Fall 2005
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
Select a bunch of text and then hit crtl-slash • Comments it all out • (Also uncomments)
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.