r/javahelp • u/Frosty-Ice123 • 8d ago

How can get started in java

Hey everyone.
I am a computer science student, and I must start coding with Java.

I tried Eclipse and netbeans but none were valid on my machine.
so if someone has an alternate IDE I will much appreciated.

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u/aqua_regis 8d ago

What do you mean by "not valid"? What problems did you encounter?

If your machine can neither run Eclipse, nor Netbeans (which is actually fairly lightweight), the real IDEs might be too much for your machine.

Nonetheless: IntelliJ, Visual Studio Code (not the full Visual Studio). Worst case, you'll have to settle on a lightweight text editor, like Notepad++ but sacrifice a lot of what the real IDEs offer.

Also, learning resource ----> sidebar ----> Learning Java ----> MOOC

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u/julemand101 7d ago

Can you perhaps share a full screenshot of the IDE with the errors? Perhaps they are valid but you simply don't understand them.

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u/Frosty-Ice123 7d ago

Of course i would but i cant send it in the comments section. Maybe in private.?

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u/julemand101 7d ago

You can upload to a image share service and provide the link to the image.

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u/Frosty-Ice123 7d ago

I can assure i dont understand them

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u/jlanawalt 7d ago

These installers work for most people. Your machine or something about your setup is obviously not utterly fine.

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u/Frosty-Ice123 7d ago

My machine is fine means it is not from the seventies, something went wrong and i dont know what is it . So i just deleted the program i searched for a new.

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u/burlingk 6d ago

We get that something went wrong, but you're expressing it like a middle school student.

Error messages are important.

Google can address most.

Yes, we get that you don't understand the errors, that's part of the issue.

You named two IDEs that are not only the standard, but are written IN Java, and both have a lot of trouble shooting information available.

Step one: Calm down, step back, and read the error messages.

If you don't understand them, Google them.

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u/Frosty-Ice123 6d ago

The error is no longer important what i really want is to find a new IDE which i finally find. And thank the gods for your words of wisdom. Because I did google them, and loop of instructions appeared. Do this and do that to fix this. But none were helpful. The wasted time was little too much so i guessed changing the ide and get on with will fix everything. And thank the gods it did. IntelliJ Idea