IMPORTANT NOTE: Your setup at home will likely not be identical to the one we have in our labs. Any assignments that you turn in will be graded on our lab machines. This means that if you choose to work from home, it is your responsibility to make sure that your program compiles and runs correctly on the lab machines when you turn it in.

The recommended Hardware Requirements for BlueJ are: 64MB RAM and a 300Mhz Processor, but the bare minimum you could get by with are: 32MB of RAM and a 166Mhz Processor. Here are the directions:

1. First, you need to download and install the Java 2 Platform.
(If you want to run BlueJ on a Mac, you need to be running OS X. Java is already installed, so go to step 3. I have not actually installed BlueJ on a Mac myself, so you're on your own here... but the directions should be similar.)

2. After the file has been downloaded, double click it and install it.

3. Next, you need to download and install BlueJ, which is a (free!) graphical programming tool. Again, the installer will ask for an installation directory, choose "C:\bluej" which is the same location that the CMC labs use.

Documentation can be found here (BlueJ) and here (Java).

4. The last step is installing the javabook library. First, obtain the javabook library from the textbook website. Unzip the file that you download into the folder "C:\bluej\javabook". Then, start up BlueJ. Click "Tools", then "Preferences", then click on the "Libraries" tab. Click on the "Add" button, then type "C:\bluej" in the "File name" box. Click the "Open" button, then click OK. Shut down BlueJ, and start it up again. Go to the libraries tab again to make sure your change stuck (occasionally it doesn't stick, and you have to do it again.) Javabook should now work.