CS 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Textpad, Java Development Kit
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If you would like to be able to do assignments and write java programs on your own computer, you"ll need to install the jdk and some sort of ide, such as textpad (windows) or drjava (mac). If you"re planning to install textpad, install the jdk rst. On the page, there"s several different downloads of the jdk for different types of computers. If your computer is a newer windows computer, you would want to download jdk-8u60-windows- x64. exe, for example. Once the le downloads, run it and follow the installer"s steps to install the jdk onto your computer. Next, if you"re using windows, you can download textpad here: https://www. textpad. com/download/index. html. Once the le downloads, run it and follow the installer"s steps to install textpad. It turns out that drjava doesn"t work with oracle"s jdks. Apple actually releases their own jdk of java 6. It"s an older version of java, but is ne for what we"ll be doing.
