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setting up eclipse on USB drive

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GAMMA_BLADE

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I'm looking to set up a USB drive with eclipse on it so I can carry around the pen drive and always be able to work as long as I can find a computer. My thought is that I would install Java on the drive and then just dump eclipse on it, but I'm guessing since the drive letter will be changing from computer to computer this will change the path to Java on the USB drive and will change the location of the working directory on the pen drive. Is there a good way to get around this? Am I missing something?
 
One way would be to make a batch file to run eclipse which sets the path with a relative path to the JVM/JRE. An example of how to do this for another program is here.
 
Ill try this. I'm not to savvy with batch files but Ill see what i can do. Any other ideas?
 
Batch file shouldn't be hard to do just search for it. If you figure out how to do it let me know. My work folder and eclipse install would be around 4gigs so i don't have a reason to try it out yet. Plus we have a vpn setup so i can work from any computer by just logging onto my computer from anywhere with a net connection. Might want to check into setting up a vpn, wouldn't recommend software but hardware wouldn't be too bad we got a decent one for under a thousand and it allows unlimited users as long as the vpn can support the traffic, which is like 10-15.
 
That would be cool, but The reason I'm doing this is to make 100 of them and give them to the "intro to CompSci" kids to use for the class I'm TAing. Ive gotten the batch file to work, but if there are any other ways I'd Like not know. Just want to see all my options.
 
How old are these kids? Shouldn't they be able to setup the environment themselves and work on things. I remember in my classes spending 6 hours or more trying to set stuff up because the teacher wanted us to fall on our own before it was spoon fed to us. And there are a million docs on this all over the web, just give them the source and a link to download it.
 
Well he said the course is called "intro to CompSci" so I wouldn't expect all of the students to be able to set up the environment themselves without lots of questions.
 
Yeah this is a 100 level course and we don't focus on the environment we focus on the basics of programming. Most of the students aren't CS majors either. They are typically MIS students that have no reason to be in the class other then its required. We really don't care to spend the time explaining something that they don't need to know, ie eclipse. We just want to get them programming the basics. Keep coming with the ideas. I'm not 100% satisfied with the batch file as of yet. Anything else that I'm missing?
 
Yeah I saw that. I might use it when i finish making my batch. I'm not 100% happy with the batch file yet.
 
If they are just starting programming, I believe you should not use a powerful IDE such as Eclipse, but should something as simple as Notepad. If you start holding their hand now with things such as autocompletion and syntax highlighting, they will probably never learn the way they should.
 
Its not my call. I'm just the TA responsible for setting the pen drives up. I honestly have the same opinion as you. When I went though this class we had to use Linux and emacs, but times are changing and they want to bring more people in. We also have a large majority of non-CS students that we need to cater too.
 
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