[ace_w1zard]

Please before you shune me away and tell me to google it and i am a hopeless noob, PLEASE tell me where i can find a GOOD java complier! I was looking all day today and i really want to start learning java! I tried ecplipse but it is acting gay on my computer. I want javac, please can ANYBODY, just send me a link to javac donwnload page or something, i just ask of that! just that! and also when i am done downloading javac should a javac icon appear on my screen or what? how should i get it to run, also do you suggest the OOP version of it to? jUST please help.

[pbl]

Eclipse is NOT a compiler it is an IDE
Java compiler can be download from Sun... SDK (Sun Development Kit)
http://java.sun.com/...loads/index.jsp
there is no reason to download a compiler from anywhere else

[ace_w1zard]

pbl, on 15 Jan, 2010 - 09:58 PM, said:

Eclipse is NOT a compiler it is an IDE
Java compiler can be download from Sun... SDK (Sun Development Kit)
http://java.sun.com/...loads/index.jsp
there is no reason to download a compiler from anywhere else

ty for the info, will i need to download anything else before i begin to write my 1st program? or is that all what i need provided in that link you provided, also is java a OOP language?

[erik.price]

Yes it is an Object oriented language.

The JRE is the runtime environment, and is required to run Java programs
The JDK is the development kit, and is what you will actually be using to compile the programs

[pbl]

ace_w1zard, on 15 Jan, 2010 - 10:06 PM, said:

[ty for the info, will i need to download anything else before i begin to write my 1st program?

The only other thing you will neeed is an editor like Notepad to actually write the program

[ace_w1zard]

pbl, on 16 Jan, 2010 - 09:00 AM, said:

ace_w1zard, on 15 Jan, 2010 - 10:06 PM, said:

[ty for the info, will i need to download anything else before i begin to write my 1st program?

The only other thing you will neeed is an editor like Notepad to actually write the program

OK i know i mat be getting on your nerves but i am 100% new to java, so i downloaded the Java™ SE Development Kit 6 Update 18. That is what i have on my pc, what other programs should i download to start programming and will it come with a OOP?

[erik.price]

OOP is not a piece of software, it is a programming concept. It is an acronym for Object Oriented Programming

http://java.sun.com/.../java/concepts/

This post has been edited by erik.price: 16 January 2010 - 01:49 PM

[KeyboardKowboy]

Now that you have an SDK installed, you can utilize a Java IDE to aid in your programming endeavors. I personally enjoy NetBeans. During the netbeans installation, it should automatically detect that you have an SDK installed and will leverage it from there.

NetBeans Website

[pbl]

ace_w1zard, on 16 Jan, 2010 - 12:39 PM, said:

OK i know i mat be getting on your nerves but i am 100% new to java, so i downloaded the Java™ SE Development Kit 6 Update 18. That is what i have on my pc, what other programs should i download to start programming and will it come with a OOP?

Java is OOP nothing else to download
Check where your /java/bin directory is... probably under /Program Files/Jave or /Program Files(X86)/Java
put that directory into your PATH variable
the go into the directory where your Java program is and at the console prompt:
> javac MyClass.java
> java MyClass

[no2pencil]

** Renamed title to be more descriptive of question **

I 2nd pbl's suggestion. Downloading the tools (compiler) from the people who wrote the language... regardless of what your definition of good is, you can't get any better than that.

[TriggaMike]

I 3rd that. Notepad + Command Line is the best way to start out.

[erik.price]

I actually started with an IDE, rather than command line.

But I agree with the idea of it being better to learn by coding everything by hand rather than auto-generated stuff from an IDE.

[ace_w1zard]

HEY guys i got the Java complier and IDE down, but know i want to know where can i get the OOP part of java, ALSO what IDE do you recommend? is net beans good?

[erik.price]

In your other thread, we explained to you that OOP is a programming concept, not a downloadable piece of software.

I posted this link before, but you must not have read it: http://java.sun.com/.../java/concepts/

Also, when starting out, the best thing to do is just use a text editor and the command line, so that you don't rely on code completion and other features of IDEs

[pbl]

ace_w1zard, on 17 Jan, 2010 - 03:41 PM, said:

HEY guys i got the Java complier and IDE down, but know i want to know where can i get the OOP part of java, ALSO what IDE do you recommend? is net beans good?

There is not such a thing as the "OOP part of Java" Java is OOP you have nothing else to download
As far as IDE is concerned, if you are new to programming just use Notepad that way you will learn

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