I've been trying to do the Stanford CS106A course through iTunesU, but I keep running into problems with Eclipse. I tried getting Stanford's custom version with Karel, but that kept giving the "unable to access jarfile startup.jar" error. I even tried getting a current version and trying the instructions on http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/getting_stanfords_karel_robot_run_debians_eclipse, but that threw null pointer exceptions when I tried to run a programming assignment.
I'm not sure what information to give, but I'm running Mac OS 10.6.8 (64-bit, I think?), and my Java version is 1.6.0_22.
Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. I've got algorithms in my head, and I need to get them out! :)
The correct download link for the Eclipse package recommended by the course is actually via the class page here: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs106a/
The software link is in the sidebar, but it uses frames so it's difficult to link directly. Here's the software page without the navigation: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs106a/software/