1.5.2. Projects¶

Eclipse is not an editor. It’s an IDE. Everything begins with a project.

This chapter would give an overview on using them in Eclipse.

1.5.2.1. Creating a sample project¶

Projects can be created via File → New → Project. Depending on the current perspective, the options in the file menu would change.

e.g. when you are in CDT Perspective, Eclipse would look like this:

when you are in Resource Perspective, Eclipse would look like this:

To keep things simple, we would create a general (Normal) project. We would create C/C++ Projects once we cover CDT in further detail.

Name it as DemoProject