- In this course, I'll be using Eclipse,
which is available for download for
Windows, MacOSX, and Linux.
If you don't have Eclipse installed in your computer,
please do so now.
If you're not familiar with Eclipse,
you can check out the course
Up and Running with Eclipse here on lynda.com.
The exercise files for this course
are a series of text files,
named with a chapter number, underscore,
and the movie number of their corresponding movie.
The files names and with .C,
the file extension for a C source file.
I'm going to start a new project,
which will show you what you have to do in order
to work on the project that we'll see in this course.
First we go to file >> new
and choose a C Project.
Depending on you configuration of Eclipse,
you may have multiple options.
I'm working on a Mac.
So, I'm choosing the MacOSX, new compiler,
and the default Hello World ANSI C Project,
which stands for a standard C Project.
Here I will type the project name,
in this case, it will be 00_04
to match a particular movie that we planned in this course,
and we click finish.
Here it is.
If you did these steps,
you should see the source created automatically
by Eclipse for you,
and a list of folders on the left hand side.
More importantly, this is the source 00_04.C,
which is the number existing you use in this course.
By the time you are done with this course,
you should see all the other folders
if you create them as you watch the videos.
If you don't have access to the exercise files,
you can simply follow the video,
pause it, and type the code yourself.
Some of those exercises are fairly short,
maybe 50 or so lines,
even the longer ones are not that long.
Rarely there will be an exercise
more than 200 or 300 lines of code.
You are welcome to try them
and modify them and think that C is a language
that allows for a lot of creativity.
Not everything you will see in these files
is always the best way to do it,
is just one of many good ways to do it.