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So far, you have been developing code in a directory, running java and javac by hand. Perhaps you have written .bat or .sh scripts to run these commands repetitively. You also have probably set your system classpath at the global level for this class.

By setting up Ant properly, we'll eliminate the need for this.

Create the following directory structure on your computer where you will work on your homework assignments 

base directory (like c:/se450 or /home/username/se450
|
+------>build.xml
        /src
	/lib

The /src directory will contain all of your source files in their full package directories

The /lib directory will contain any third party .jar files that are supplied by me or others

Other directories will be created as we go through the quarter and by the build process itself.

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