Pertinent Links

This collection of links provides interesting sites/pages about all things technology.

     
   
     
 
    Freeware Development Tools
  • Syn - A plain text editor with advanced features like syntax highlighting
  • Smultron - Similar to Syn but for the Mac
  • TextPad - Another plain text editor for Windows (shareware)
  • #develop - An open source Visual Basic .Net development environment
  • NetBeans - An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Java provided by Sun.
  • NVU - A WYSIWYG web page editor similar to DreamWeaver
  • JCreator LE - Another Java IDE. The LE version is free.
  • Eclipse - An open source Java IDE.  This is the software we will be using in class.
  • Java SDK - The Java Software Development Kit is REQUIRED if you want to use one of the IDEs.
  • Java Extension Classes - The Java classes provided by the text book (Keyboard and such). These should be placed in the jre/lib/ext directory of your JSDK (above) installation.
  • DrScheme - The software development environment for the Scheme language. Choose your operating system from the drop down menu and click the download button.When the download finishes, double click on the downloaded file.