Eclipse IDE for Education: Getting Started

Users

We are in the process of building a package for this project. More information pending

Developers

We are actively soliciting feedback, input, and contributions for this project. If you are interested in participating in this project, please feel free to review the open bugs and add your input; also feel free to open new bugs. You can also participate in the conversation around Eclipse IDE for Education by joining the ide4edu-dev mailing list.

You can set up your own environment for developing on Eclipse IDE for Education as follows:

  1. Download and install the Eclipse for RCP/Plug-in Developers or equivalent (the Plug-in Development Environment is required);
    • You'll need a Java 5 compatible runtime (JRE) installed on your workstation
    • Unzip the downloaded package to install. You can find some help in the Eclipse FAQ
  2. Download the ide4edu.psf Team Project Set; and
  3. Import the Team Project Set using the File > Import > Team Project Set menu. When you are prompted, use "anonymous" as the user id with an empty (blank) password.

Following the above set of instructions should result in a workspace containing all the source code for the project. Note that while you can read the code and make local changes, you will not be able to commit any of your changes back to the server. To do so requires "committer" access.