The BlueJ Tutorial

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This tutorial is an introduction to using the BlueJ programming environment. BlueJ is. a JavaT development environment specifically designed for teaching at …

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The BlueJ Tutorial
Version 2.0.1
for BlueJ Version 2.0.x
Michael K?ling
M?sk Institute
University of Southern DenmarkTable of contents
Copyright . M. K?ling 2
Copyright . M. K?ling
Contents
1 Foreword 4
1.1 About BlueJ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………4
1.2 Scope and audience …………………………………………………………………………………………………………4
1.3 Copyright, licensing and redistribution …………………………………………………………………………….4
1.4 Feedback ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….5
2 Installation 6
2.1 Installation on Windows…………………………………………………………………………………………………..6
2.2 Installation on Macintosh ………………………………………………………………………………………………..7
2.3 Installation on Linux/Unix and other systems ……………………………………………………………………7
2.4 Installation problems……………………………………………………………………………………………………….7
3 Getting started - edit / compile / execute 8
3.1 Starting BlueJ ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..8
3.2 Opening a project ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………9
3.3 Creating objects……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..9
3.4 Execution……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 11
3.5 Editing a class…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 13
3.6 Compilation………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 13
3.7 Help with compiler errors…………………………………………………………………………………………….. 14
4 Doing a bit more… 16
4.1 Inspection …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 16
4.2 Passing objects as parameters………………………………………………………………………………………. 18
5 Creating a new project 20
5.1 Creating the project directory ………………………………………………………………………………………. 20
5.2 Creating classes………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 20
5.3 Creating dependencies …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 21
5.4 Removing elements ………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 21…