Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:56:48 -0500 Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 09:56:51 -0700 From: Patricia Shanahan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.help Subject: Re: Compiler References: <9skss7dli61osisk2ldnnm75fa77glb62g@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 24 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.230.202.8 X-Trace: sv3-M2Ez0AvY+kAZ4bGh6qxMqyYnrDHaXcxA+W5i05+7Boq/CIsNCgXJLIcIgeIzXOj0oAKYzXnhehxmuPo!heFIyjyI5VkpppwPt7jsPCWj0zIVkR519JG16LxY52FMhpt2MLpsk7C+BE2yC8GHW49dcbA8eSLO!a5XrBblnS07XplbKjzTXtJf47zwM3oinS2cLGJwEs7xu X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2264 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.help:1829 On 6/6/2012 8:53 AM, dystokia@stokeontrent.plus.com wrote: ... > I did some programming in 'C' some time ago and recall that I began by > buying an IDE, introduction to 'C' book and a function reference. > > I will persevere. It's really just the same for Java, except that you don't have to buy anything unless you want to. You can download a free IDE, such as Eclipse or Netbeans. The "function reference" is the API documentation, available on-line or downloadable. There are many on-line tutorials. If you do buy a book, and the book recommends an IDE or other way of compiling, it will be easiest to just do what it says. Otherwise, pick *one* of the people who has made recommendations, and follow that person's advice. The problem is that there are several ways of doing things, and different people are suggesting their preferred approach, but the combination gets confusing. Patricia