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Working with the accounts we provide has the advantage that most things are already set up for you. To do so, either go to the Grundausbildungspool (GAP; the thing we have our practicals in) in the basement of Hermann-Rodewald-Straße 3 or login to the servers using your own computer. In both cases, you need to login with the credentials you got when you signed up for studying computer science (the user name will most likely be something like stu0000). To login using your own computer, you need to install the ThinLinc client application. When you start the ThinLinc client, you are not only prompted for your credentials, but also for a server address; use thinlinc.informatik.uni-kiel.de. see "Terminalserver" on this site. Once you are logged in, you can find a development environment called Eclipse through the start menu.

Whatever way you choose: to get ready to work on your homework assignments, you do have to download the ACM Java library. Click this link and save the file somewhere you'll be able to find it again. For better documentation inside of Eclipse, also download this archive and save it at the same place as the ACM Java library.

Working on Your Own Computer

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• The Java Development Kit. To download that, go to this site, scroll down a bit until you see Java SE 8, and click the JDK Download button to the rightand download the distribution for your operating system.
• The Eclipse development environment. Simply follow this tutorial to install the Eclipse IDE for Java Developers.
• The ACM Java library most of our assignments use. Click this link and this link and save the files file somewhere you'll be able to find them it again.

Working With Eclipse

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