Follow the directions for installation, installing the software in the folder jdk1.3 that you created. Insert the CD from the Lewis and Loftus textbook into the CD drive, go to the folder Java SDK, and double click on the executable file j2sdk1_3_0-win.exe.
It used to be that to use BlueJ with Windows you had to install a JDK first.
Make sure that you have at least a 300 MHz Pentium PC with at least 64-MB memory. The procedure for installing BlueJ is pretty simple.On Unix systems the installer installs a script named bluej in the installation directory. The BlueJ IDE has a number of extensions (commonly called plugins) which provide additional. Create a folder called jdk1.3 in the root folder of your favorite drive (usually c: drive). On Windows and MacOS, a program named BlueJ is installed. Installing BlueJ and Checkstyle on Personal Computers.If you are also going to install BlueJ or TextPad, life will be easier if you install JDK1.3 before installing either of the others. Jost for most of the JDK installation instructions.)