Assistance required by a novice.

[Mozzie Clark]

I have installed GWT 2.4.0 and Eclipse 3.6.2. and cannot work out how
to start the GWT Designer, or any other GWT component for that
matter. I have built a few databases using Visual Basic and C++ but I
know very little about coding web pages. I hope to use a WISIWYG
method and pick up the coding as I progress. For now though, I just
need to know how to get started. Hope you can assist. - Mozzie

[Warren Tang]

Believe me WISIWYG is not a good way to start. 

Beginning with WISIWYG like editors (especially Microsoft's products) can make you do some tasks very quickly, at the price that you don't understand what you are doing. The generated code is usually of low quality, hard to read and against best practices. Inevitably something goes wrong, and it's time to look at the code, but you'll find it's hard because you never really understand it.

I'm not saying WISIWYG is wrong. Some can improve productivity with proper usage (especially for prototyping and for designers). But it should be in the right order - it's important to know what we are doing before going for it.

So, if you don't know Java (or Java like language such as C#) very well, I would suggest you begin by learning Java first. Then you can follow the StockWalker tutorial: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/tutorial/gettingstarted.html

[Shawn Brown]

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