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Creating a project

Close the Welcome page. Right-click in the Navigator panel, and select New->Project:

Select "Java Project" and then "Next". Enter the name of your project:

Click "Finish". If you get prompted about switching to the Java perspective, select "Yes".

Perspectives

Eclipse provides a number of perspectives for different types of development task. You can see all of the available perspectives by selecting Window->Open Perspective->Other...

The "Java" perspective (which we're currently in) provides editors, views, and menu items which are useful for developing Java applications. The "Resource" perspective (which we started off from) provides a more basic set of tools, for example a Windows Explorer style file navigator.

You can quickly switch between perspectives using the buttons to the top right of the Eclipse window:

Note that projects are simply directories stored under the directory that you selected as your workspace. Look on the file system and see for yourself.