The tester library, the world libraries and the sound library work in any IDE that supports regular Java program development, of course, including the command line programming.

We include simple guides that allow the programmer to setup the needed environment quickly. The programmer needs to save the library jar files in some designated place, create a project or folder with the user-defined source code for the Java class and interface definitions, including the definitions of the class that contains the examples of data and the test cases, and finally, to compile and to run the program in a way that invokes the test evaluation and reporting.

For a novice programmer we prefer to use a setup that does not require that students define the main method, but some IDEs make such choice either difficult or impossible.

Regardless of the programming environment, the programmer has to define one or more Java classes. For each IDE we provide one file named either Shape(s).java or Examples.java that contains a definition of the IShape interface, a definition of three classes Circle, Square, and CartPt, and finally, the class Examples that contains examples and tests for these classes.

Note: A novice programmer may include all these classes and interfaces in one file, later on learning to define each class in its own file.

Detailed instructions for setting up the project in any of the given possible environments: NetBeans, Eclipse, a command line controlled compilation and execution of Java programs, BlueJ, JGrasp, or DrJava, are provided in the corresponding pages.

Comments, Hints, Suggestions

If you have any comments, hints, suggestions about any specific IDE, ways you set up your projects that may be different from those shown, please, send e-mail to Viera, make a supplement page, write up your instructions, and I will be happy to add them to the corresponding page.