Re: Eclipse: Totally Dumb Questions

  • From: Alex Midence <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:09:12 -0500

Yeah, that's about what I thought too.  I just wound up using EdSharp
for c++ till I got some code to run so I could focus on the language I
was learning and not on the IDE I was using.  I have since found an
IDE I'm comfortable with.  I hope the same holds true for you after a
while.  Eclipse is nice but, it's something you want to focus on
exclusively until you get the hang of it.  If you try and do it while
you are figuring out why some code won't compile or coming up with a
program as an exercise, you will get frustrated because you won't get
very far with either.  I think what you are doing is very sane.

Happy learning,
Alex M

On 8/24/10, Homme, James <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> I will get back to Eclipse once I've learned a little basic Java. I don't
> want that environment to stop me for now. I'll play with it since I know I'm
> going to be using Rational Application Developer, or some other
> Eclipse-based product. Thanks for the help.
>
> Jim
>
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> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Midence
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 9:43 AM
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> Subject: Re: Eclipse: Totally Dumb Questions
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> Welcome to the wild whacky world of eclipse the accessible Ide that is
> a pain in the ahem ... class  ... to learn because the obvious isn't
> obvious and the intuitive stuff never made it into production.  It
> sounds like you are in the project explorer.  Tab around and see if
> you land in a tree view.  If you can do this, arrow to your file and
> use the context menu to edit it.  Also type shift alt q to get a list
> of all the hotkeys eclipse has.
> Try going to alt w and the show view submenu.  See if you can tell it
> to go to the project explorer if you are not already there.
> Sorry I can't be of more use.  I was using eclipse's cdt for c++
> development and eventually gave up on it because, accessible or not, I
> didn't find the app itself very user-friendly and the manuals I landed
> on were very sketchy and rather  unhelpful to the beginner.  I hope
> your experience is different.  You are actually using the IDE for its
> original intended purpose.  The documentation for java developers is
> probably much more extensive.  In fact, now I think of it there are
> some eclipse manuals on eclipse in the java archive of the nonvisual
> development site.  They are probably for an older version but, you
> might check them out.  They may help you.
>
> Good luck,
> Alex M
>
>
> On 8/23/10, Homme, James <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> This is my first Hello World type project, so I'm probably doing something
>> totally wrong.
>>
>> I get to the part where I tell the program the name of my file. I typed in
>> Welcome.java with a capital W. It sounded like an edit window came up when
>> I
>> pressed Enter. When I try to type characters just to see if I can read and
>> write text, I can't seem to read anything. What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Jim
>>
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