

Launch BlueJ using the alias created earlier or otherwise (Figure 2).įrom the BlueJ menu chose Project | Open Project. This should create a folder chapter01 in which are located three subdirectories: lab-classes, picture and shapes.įor the remaining BlueJ labs we should, therefore, progressively build a directory structure as shown in Figure 1.

#Bluej installation for mac#
Helpful information on working with files and folders is available here for Windows and here for Mac users. Once setup has completed you may find that creating a shortcut or alias on your desktop helps during the various lab sessions. This ought to install the missing Java infrastructure. If the launch fails this may be because the Java component has not installed properly.Ī fallback method to resolve this is to install Oracle's Netbeans IDE details for which are available here.

Once the installation is complete, launch BlueJ.
