In the lab--or at home--here is a roadmap for starting HW1. Understand: we are mostly trying, right now, to learn Eclipse. We'll pick up some ideas about Java, too, but that's a secondary focus for today.

Get HW1Snippets from below.  Leave this open, or copy to a Notepad file.

Whenever you are ready to leave the lab, close Eclipse and send yourself and your partner email with your Java file attached. Or copy to a USB memory thing, or burn a CD. But email is simplest.

1. Start Eclipse. Name a workspace; for us, it can't be the default. In the lab, it has to be a file in C:\temp. The name doesn't much matter, except make it meaningful--to you.
2. Create a New/Project. Name it Homework1
3. Right click on that and create a new package. Name it hw1
4. Right click on that and Import/File system and navigate to wherever you can get HW1StarterV3.java. That will be a folder name, not a file name. Click OK.
5. You will be given a list of all the files in that folder. Select HW1StarterV3.java and click Finish.
6. The file will show up in your Package Explorer View. Double click to open it. (Ignore warning messages.)
7. Select HW1StarterV3 in the class definition. Right click Refactor/Rename and rename to HW1. Click Finish. This also updates all references to that name--including the file name. Note the change in the Package Explorer View. Ignore a warning about a main method.
8. Save and Run/Run as/Java Application – to make sure you are starting with something that works. That is, test some good and bad data. Can be very quick.
9. Change date and name(s).
10. Find  private void initialize() {

            this.setSize(350, 150);

change the 150 to 250.

6. Copy Snippet 1 to the end of the private String declarations at the beginning of the program. Fix indentation if necessary. Save and run. (That's right after the declaration private String lastNameAsEntered = new String();.)
7. Find the line private private JTextField lastNameEntry = null; and insert Snippet 2.
8. Find   private javax.swing.JPanel getJContentPane() { and at the end of the list of jContentPane.add lines add Snippet 3. Fix indentation if necessary. Save and run. Ah, but there are errors! OK, so you can’t run it yet.
9. At the end of the program, just before the closing }, copy in Snippet 4. Save and try to run. That eliminated one error. (Be prepared to explain what the error  meant and why this fixed it.)
10. So that you can test the insert of the last snippet, "comment out" the last line of Snippet 3 that you added earlier; that's jContentPane.add(getZIPAsEntered(), null);.  Pressing Control + / anywhere in a line toggles between making it a comment and not. (Remember to uncomment it later, after you have fixed the textfield for the ZIP code.)
11. Find the line private javax.swing.JTextField getLastNameEntry() {
12. Copy that entire method to the end of the program, just before the closing }. Save. Lots of errors! Can you explain them?
13. In the code you just copied select (double click) getLastNameEntry
14. Change that to getZIPEntry
15. In the next line, select lastNameEntry
16. Change that to ZIPEntry
17. Change the other five instance to lastNameEntry to ZIPEntry  (Don't forget the last one, in the return statement.)
18. Change the three instances of lastNameAsEntered to ZIPAsEntered
19. Change the error message
20. Save and run.
21. Celebrate or scream, as appropriate.

This is probably at least enough for an hour in the lab. We don't try to win it all in one day.

When you are ready to stop for the day, close Eclipse. If running on a lab machine, copy your workspace to a floppy or CD. I’ll show you how to burn a CD if that isn’t obvious.

If you can run this, you are ready to start programming the error checking of the ZIP code, and, if that’s OK, printing the output. Note that you are not required to check that it is numeric. We'll do that in HW2.

Snippet 1
private String ZIPAsEntered = new String();

Snippet 2

private javax.swing.JLabel ZIPLabel = null;
private javax.swing.JTextField ZIPEntry = null;


Snippet 3

jContentPane.add(getZIPLabel(), null);
jContentPane.add(getZIPEntry(), null);

Snippet 4

private javax.swing.JLabel getZIPLabel() {
	if(ZIPLabel == null) {
		ZIPLabel = new javax.swing.JLabel();
		ZIPLabel.setText("ZIP code *");
		ZIPLabel.setPreferredSize(new java.awt.Dimension(100,20));
	}
	return ZIPLabel;
}

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