day one

Today we had an general introduction what we are going to do and which tools we will use. We have been given the task of improving a simple text adventure, add a GUI and there is enough time implement some kind of multiplayer (mmorpg?). To do this we have eclipse, JUnit, ant and possibly also JWAM.

Normally I would use vim/emacs to program, but for java using eclipse is the better choice, because it is assisting you so much, autocomplete almost everything, tooltips for everything, JUnit ant and CVS integration, that's more than you need most of the time, but when you do it's there.