- Download Eclipse. You'll want the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers.
- The Eclipse folder can exist anywhere on your hard drive, but on a Mac it's conventional to put the folder in your Applications folder.
- When you run Eclipse for the first time, it will ask you to set a workspace. This can be anywhere on your hard drive, but on a Mac it's conventional to use /Users/<your user name>/Documents/workspace.
- You can click on the circular arrow next to "workbench" to get you out of the new user screen.
- Install Subversion (SVN) for Eclipse. Note: "SVN" is the shorthand for "SubVersioN".
- Get Processing running in Eclipse.
- You can test your setup by checking out the first week's example code. Step by step checkout instructions
You should set up a Subversion repository on Google Code, or with your hosting service. If you use dreamhost, you can configure Subversion under "Goodies".
Creating a Repository with Google Code:
- First of all, anything you check into Google Code is going to be "open source", meaning anybody can download it. If you want your repository to be private, you're best off getting an account with a web hosting service that provides Subversion access.
- Go to http://code.google.com/hosting/ and choose "Create a New Project"
- Give your project a Project Name, a Summary, and a Description. I would also choose "Use a separate content license"- Creative Commons BY-SA, which means that other people can use your elements, but they can't "own" them, so in other words, someone else can expand on your animation and put it on YouTube (as long as they give you credit for the original elements), but an Advertising firm can't use your animation to sell Coca-Cola.
- That's pretty much it. Click on the "Source" tab to get instructions on how to check in elements to the repository.