Personal CS Website

PERSONAL CS WEBSITE

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General Information:

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All Computer Sciences students have file space available on the CS web servers. Students may create their own personal website and have it hosted for free by the CS department. Your website is subject to CS Department policies. Read the CSL Computer Science Department Web Servers for details.

We encourage students to create their own CS website making it possible for you to practice web programming at your convenience. Students may use their site to post content created for their Wisconsin Idea extra credit project.

Your CS department web page can be viewed at: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~CSLOGIN

There are multiple ways to edit your complimentary CS department personal pages. You can even do it from Eclipse. There are two main routes. Edit the pages directly on the CS file system, or create the files elsewhere and copy them to your CS file space.

Create/Edit your web page in a CS Labs using DreamWeaver:

If you are working in a Windows lab, you can use DreamWeaver to create and edit your own web site. Think of DreamWeaver as an Integrated Web Site Development Environment. It can easily create links to other web pages, images, videos, css stylesheets, Javascript files, etc. However, it

  1. Start -> All Programs -> Adobe Design and Web Premium -> Adobe DreamWeaver

 

Installation of Eclipse 4.2 on Windows/Linux/Mac Machines:

  1. Go to Eclipse IDE for Java Developers.
  2. Select your platform (win/mac/linux and 32 or 64bit)
  3. Select one of the available download sites.
  4. Wait for download to complete.
  5. Find your downloaded file and click to open and start extracting the files.
  6. Double-click to extract all of the files.
  7. I was able to ignore the file name size is too long error (we won't use that add-on).
  8. Launch the Eclipse program to launch Eclipse IDE.
  9. Follow the instructions found on the Eclipse web site and try the Eclipse tutorial (Link to tutorial can be found on course Menu).
  10. Verify Eclipse is working by doing the Eclipse Tutorial and see the common problems listed below.

Installation on Macs:

These instructions have not been confirmed for the new release.

  1. Install Java 6
    1. If you plan on using a Mac with Java 6 you should be using OS X 10.5.10 or greater. Last we checked, Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) was the latest release.
    2. If you are using OS X 10.5.X, you must update Java by following the instructions at Java for Mac OS X 10.5 update 10. Downloading this update will fix the NoClassDefFoundError thrown by Eclipse and ensures that the programming assignments that use graphics will work on your computer. This update is not necessary if you are running a newer version (e.g., Snow Leopard, Lion).
  2. Install Eclipse 3.6 (Note that it does not include Java 6)
    1. Download Eclipse 3.6.2. Scroll down to the section labeled "Eclipse SDK" and in that section search for the appropriate Mac OSX platform. Most Mac users should use "eclipse-SDK-3.6.2-macosx-cocoa.tar.gz" (should be 5th from the bottom. Click on the "(http)" in the Download column. Click on "download" at the bottom of the next page that appears, which takes you to the appropriate Eclipse downloads page. In the new page, click on the icon that looks like a green arrow pointing down at a line. Save the file to begin downloading.
    2. Note that Eclipse doesn't have an installation process like Java. Double click on the previously downloaded file to untar it, and then you're ready to go. In the folder named "eclipse", double click on the big blue dot to launch Eclipse. You might also want to create a shortcut on the desktop to simplify the launching of Eclipse.
  3. Verify Eclipse is working by doing the Eclipse Tutorial and see the common problems listed below.

Common Problems: