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Working with tasks

Working with tasks

- [Instructor] Software development, like any other complex projects, is best set up for success when broken up into manageable chunks. Eclipse helps you do that with the task list view and the tasks view. In this movie, I want to focus on the tasks view. The task list view is more complicated and a super set of the features that are in the tasks view. So let's start with the tasks view by going to Window, Show View, Tasks. When I open that up, it defaults to showing up at the bottom, but it might show up somewhere else for you and that's fine. I'll expand it just a little bit. I'm going to add a new task by right-clicking in the tasks view and then choosing Add Task. Think of a task as a manageable chunk in your software development cycle. Maybe something needs to get done, but you're focused on something else right now and you want to remain focused on that thing because you could quickly get overwhelmed if you think of all the things that need to be done at the same time. So that's…

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