Using Subversion (SVN) enables me to make changes to course examples in such a way that you can easily update your downloaded copies of the examples without having to download the entire code or missing any of the changes. Only new changes, if any, are downloaded and automatically applied to your downloaded copies.

You can access the examples via anonymous SVN from Eclipse, NetBeans, or any other SVN client of your choice. When using the IDE's SVN client functionality, you will not need to use the command line or any other client to use SVN. This guide covers the use of SVN through Eclipse (you must have the Subversive plugin installed). The rest of this document covers the use of SVN through Eclipse. For information on the use of SVN through NetBeans, please refer to this guide; for Microsoft Visual Studio, please refer to this guide.

These are the one-time-only steps you should follow in Eclipse to establish access to the repository containing the examples:

My courses map to subfolders of this repository as follows: 

You can check out any project into your workspace from the SVN repository perspective. To browse the repository, expand its entry, then the node labeled trunk, and note how the example projects show up as children of the trunk:

From the Java or Resource perspective, you can update your copy of a project you already checked out: