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We will be installing an IDE called Eclipse Luna R, and will be adding PyDev to develop a coding environment. Instructions as follows:

Alright, we are going to install Eclipse IDE, PyDev and it should only take an hour to download if you're on a low connection. Here are the steps:

 

 

Download Latest Java SE Environment: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

 

First download Java and install. Please remember where your Java SE is installed to, what path such as c:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_60/bin/javaw.exe

I don't know about Mac OS X, click here for information on downloading Eclipse for Mac OS X. I would still use the Eclipse Luna R download. I use this.

 

 

Apple Users using OS X read this first: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming_Mac_OS_X_with_Cocoa_for_Beginners/What_is_Cocoa%3F

 

Download Eclipse Luna R: https://eclipse.org/downloads/packages/release/Luna/R

 

Click on Eclipse Standard 4.4: then click on the right hand side, if you aren't sure which 32-bit or 64-bit computer you're using go with 32-bit click here.

 

Mac Users follow the instructions "for more information on downloading Eclipse" above. It's the same thing, but for Luna R.

 

If you're running Windows and get an "error 13" or "error 1" do this, download Notepad ++ then open the file called eclipse.config or just eclipse.ini (it doesn't show .ini so make sure you know that its the other eclipse icon that has configuration settings. Use Notepad ++ to open,

 

It should look like this in Notepad ++;

-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20140415-2008.jar
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_64_1.1.200.v20140603-1326
-product
org.eclipse.epp.package.standard.product
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256M
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256m
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
--launcher.appendVmargs
-vm
c:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_60/bin/javaw.exe

-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.7
-Xms40m
-Xmx512m

 

If you are getting the "error 13" or "error 1", put

-vm
c:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_60/bin/javaw.exe (or where your current file of javaw.exe is in, search for the file)

 

before the -vmargs, then click save. And click on Eclipse Icon to start.

 

Then do this to install PyDev.

 

When you are done with this and first opening PyDev and creating a project file. Depending on what Python Interpreter you want, in other words which version you'd like to run. Please click "New Project", if you cannot get to the next window, click the underlined link on which Interpreter you'd like to use, pick the latest version and then click Auto-Configure.

 

We will be moving to the PYTHON Tab soon, with PyDev installed. And starting creating lib.

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