Navigating Ganymede using Awesome Child-Oriented Fonts like Comic Sans - Makes Reading Java More Fun!

Making your way around Eclipse ain't easy when you're used to MSVC-style GUIs, so here's a primer on how to get things configured double-speedy in the old Ganymede release of Eclipse.

Change Font Size. This should not be difficult but for first-timers it's a super-sized sudoku puzzle.

Windows->Preferences->General->Appearance->Colors and Fonts. Click on the right category e.g. Java editor text font. Set a good font and size. Changing your font regularly keeps code-reading interesting.

• Jokeman is a fun font to liven up boring code.
• Kartika9 is very clear and well-spaced.
• Vivaldi is beautiful and elegant but suffers from lack of readability.
• Mistral makes Java look beautiful.
• ComicSansMS is a nice, friendly readable font, classified as "casual, non-connecting script", a "child-oriented font" in the words of its inventor, Vincent Connare, who designed it for children's software. To quote an esteemed computer philosophe, "The real art of discovery consists not in finding new programming languages, but in seeing with new fonts".
• Gill Sans MT is another "soft font" described as a "humanist" font, created by Eric Gill in 1927 and very popular in logos for media companies (e.g. BBC). Eric Gill received the accolade "Royal Designer for Industry" (Gill9 looks fine).

Show Line Numbers: W->P->G->Editors->Text Editors->Show line numbers