COMP 102x Tutorial Software Setup

(for Windows and Mac users)

Table of Contents

System requirements

Java specification and tutorials

JRE installation

BlueJ installation

Adding external software libraries

System requirements

Windows Mac

Operating Systems

o Windows XP or later

Web Browser

o Internet explorer 8+

o Firefox 3.6+

o Google Chrome

Operating Systems

o Mac OS X 10.7.3 or later

Web Browser

o Safari 5.1.3+

o Firefox 3.6+

Java specification and tutorials

The Oracle Corporation provided detailed information about Java language

specification and tutorials. You may click on the links below to access the

supplementary materials for this course.

Java Specification: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/index.html

Java Tutorials: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/

JRE installation

Installation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition Runtime Environment (JRE), allows

you to run Java programs on your PC and as you browse the Internet. Click on the link

below to download the JRE installer and perform the installation procedure by

keeping the default installer settings. For Windows users, please be sure that you

have downloaded the 32-bit JRE installer as indicated below.

JRE installer download link (version 7 update 60):

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre7-downloads-18802

61.html

BlueJ installation

BlueJ is the integrated Java development environment that we are going to use in

this course. It allows us to edit our source code files, build and debug our Java

programs. Download the combined installer from the link below and perform the

installation procedure by keeping the default installer settings.

The combined installer will install an edition of BlueJ that is compatible with most

machines.

Visit the BlueJ web site and download the BlueJ installer as indicated in the screen

capture below.

BlueJ web site: http://www.bluej.org/

Adding external software libraries

Some of the tasks in this course will utilize resources provided by external software

libraries. To make BlueJ reference to these libraries automatically, they will need to

be put into the user library directory. Start BlueJ and click on “Tools” -> “Preferences”

and then switch to the “Libraries” tab. The user library directory can be found above

the second textbox. Mark down the path of the user library directory.

Download the libraries (in a zip file) from the link below, unzip it, and copy all the

files inside to the user library directory.

Libraries download link:

https://studio.edx.org/c4x/HKUSTx/COMP102x/asset/comp102x_libraries.zip