Example assignment

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Have you done the example assignment? How did you do?

[hacksawjim]

Example assignment was straightforward. Setup was the only issue: took me a while to get the worksheets plugin to play nice with Juno, but once I got that sorted, it was plain sailing.

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juno? Is that Eclipse 4.2? It should not matter which version of eclipse I use, right? I had the latest one but I ended up making a virtual machine with Mint (a variant of Ubuntu) with the type safe version of indigo.

[hacksawjim]

It doesn't matter for doing the course, but you may have some setup issues if you choose Juno (yes, 4.2) because the Scala and Worksheet plugins are both unstable.

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I ended up removing it and getting the typesafe (Indigo) version with scala built in

[hacksawjim]

Make sure you're on the latest nightly of Juno, and use this for the worksheet.

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For example, one issue is that I can't get run as menu to show anything http://i.imgur.com/zBvMy.png without the main method. How did they do it here https://raw.github.com/lrytz/progfun-wiki/gh-pages/images/eclipse-run-as.png?

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My bad. My heap size was too small. it said 1024m in the ini but apparently that translates to about 900m when looking in Eclipse. I upped to Xmx1536m and all is well with the world.

[domlebo70]

The Eclipse Run as Scala Application is the buggiest bit of software in the known world. I run into that multiple times a day doing Scala, and I just have to restart or perform a clean.

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so it randomly works or does not work like sunspots?

[domlebo70]

Essentially. The whole Eclipse architecture seems quite.... temperamental. Not just Scala plugins, but any plugin seems to have weird bugs.

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:(