CS210 · Programming Environment Setup

Programming Environment Setup

Select Your Operating System

Ubuntu Linux

Launch a terminal and run the following commands:

Change to your home folder.
$ cd $HOME
Install OpenJDK.
$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-17-jdk
Create lib and workspace folders.
$ mkdir lib workspace
Download stdlib.jar under ~/lib.
$ wget https://www.cs.umb.edu/~siyer/teaching/stdlib.jar -P lib
Download dsa.jar under ~/lib.
$ wget https://www.cs.umb.edu/~siyer/teaching/dsa.jar -P lib
Set the environment variable PROJECT_HOME.
$ echo "export PROJECT_HOME=$HOME/workspace" >> $HOME/.bashrc
Set the environment variable CLASSPATH.
$ echo "export CLASSPATH=.:./out:$HOME/lib/stdlib.jar:$HOME/lib/dsa.jar" >> $HOME/.bashrc

Download and install IntelliJ (Community Edition).

To test your environment, download and unzip the dummy project under ~/workspace, launch IntelliJ and open ~/workspace/dummy_project, and run the following commands on the IntelliJ terminal:
$ javac -d out src/HelloWorld.java
$ java HelloWorld

Mac OS X

Launch a terminal and run the following commands:

Change to your home folder.
$ cd $HOME
Install brew.
$ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
Install OpenJDK and wget.
$ brew install openjdk@17 wget
Create lib and workspace folders.
$ mkdir lib workspace
Download stdlib.jar under ~/lib.
$ wget https://www.cs.umb.edu/~siyer/teaching/stdlib.jar -P lib
Download dsa.jar under ~/lib.
$ wget https://www.cs.umb.edu/~siyer/teaching/dsa.jar -P lib
Set the environment variable PROJECT_HOME.
$ echo "export PROJECT_HOME=$HOME/workspace" >> $HOME/.zshenv
Set the environment variable CLASSPATH.
$ echo "export CLASSPATH=.:./out:$HOME/lib/stdlib.jar:$HOME/lib/dsa.jar" >> $HOME/.zshenv

Download and install IntelliJ (Community Edition).

To test your environment, download and unzip the dummy project under ~/workspace, launch IntelliJ and open ~/workspace/dummy_project, and run the following commands on the IntelliJ terminal:
$ javac -d out src/HelloWorld.java
$ java HelloWorld

Windows

Launch a powershell terminal and run the following commands:

Change to your home folder.
$ cd $HOME
Create lib and workspace folders.
$ mkdir lib,workspace
Download stdlib.jar under ~/lib.
$ wget -O lib\stdlib.jar https://www.cs.umb.edu/~siyer/teaching/stdlib.jar
Download dsa.jar under ~/lib.
$ wget -O lib\dsa.jar https://www.cs.umb.edu/~siyer/teaching/dsa.jar
Set the environment variable PROJECT_HOME.
$ setx PROJECT_HOME "$HOME\workspace"
Set the environment variable CLASSPATH.
$ setx CLASSPATH ".;.\out;$HOME\lib\stdlib.jar;$HOME\lib\dsa.jar"

Download and unzip OpenJDK 17 for Windows under some folder, say C:\jdk17. Run the following command in a powershell terminal:

Update the environment variable PATH to include the C:\jdk17\bin folder.
$ setx PATH "$env:PATH;C:\jdk17\bin"

Download and install IntelliJ (Community Edition). Launch IntelliJ, go to Configure → Settings → Tools → Terminal, and set Shell path to powershell.

To test your environment, download and unzip the dummy project under ~/workspace, launch IntelliJ and open ~/workspace/dummy_project, and run the following commands on the IntelliJ terminal:
$ javac -d out src/HelloWorld.java
$ java HelloWorld