Complete newbie in desperate need of guidance
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:19 pm
Hello. I may have wandered straight into the real world with this one.
I am a school student with little experience with anything. We were supposed to pick a system online which to analyze and write down what we believe the different views to be and my group picked Universal Media Server. I was fine with this, I could do that, however a much more basic problem seems to have occurred to me. I don't know how to open the complete project.
I kind of downloaded Eclipse and the zip containing UMS, able to open the Java files, but as I am inexperienced with Java on the technical level (I have simple programming experience so I know the basis of that, but I don't know how to handle the files) I am unsure how to best open the entire project. I also don't know if there is some special way that this is supposed to be done, with some specific program or if there's a particular file with which to open the entire thing, or if I am just dreaming and there is no such convenient thing. Um. I find the latter unlikely.
I suppose I am asking, how do I analyze the program? How do I open it to see the code in a logical way that doesn't force me to open every single file manually? Also, what's an .nsi file?
I apologize for not looking around harder for the answer on this website if the answer is right in front of me. Thank you for taking your time. I do look forward to feeling just a little bit more confident in whatever I am doing.
Regards, Platinum
I am a school student with little experience with anything. We were supposed to pick a system online which to analyze and write down what we believe the different views to be and my group picked Universal Media Server. I was fine with this, I could do that, however a much more basic problem seems to have occurred to me. I don't know how to open the complete project.
I kind of downloaded Eclipse and the zip containing UMS, able to open the Java files, but as I am inexperienced with Java on the technical level (I have simple programming experience so I know the basis of that, but I don't know how to handle the files) I am unsure how to best open the entire project. I also don't know if there is some special way that this is supposed to be done, with some specific program or if there's a particular file with which to open the entire thing, or if I am just dreaming and there is no such convenient thing. Um. I find the latter unlikely.
I suppose I am asking, how do I analyze the program? How do I open it to see the code in a logical way that doesn't force me to open every single file manually? Also, what's an .nsi file?
I apologize for not looking around harder for the answer on this website if the answer is right in front of me. Thank you for taking your time. I do look forward to feeling just a little bit more confident in whatever I am doing.
Regards, Platinum