Originally posted by ryan
Sounds like you need to get your environment configured properly on your Compaq. If you get the classpath variable setup you can run the javac, java, jar, etc. commands from any directory.
With Java being presinstalled with OSX you can run any of the Java commands through the terminal application.
i don't know why i do it this way...i am new to the class (and programming) and the teacher just makes us do it this way
i am learning a lot by making tons of mistakes since the class is 3/4 labtime and very little emphasis is put on the java textbook
the teacher, though a phd, was also a pc repairman (like me) and believes in a hardcore hands on approach which is the first time i have seen it that way taught in a classroom...since 1980
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in my own class i teach on the hardware side, i like to use that approach, too but i did not know that it worked so well teaching coding
it is a little hard for me since i think in such hardware terms when it comes to computing...just like the students who have the most trouble in the hardware based classes are almost always the good coders of the bunch
it must be some sort of right brained vs left brained thing, a mars and venus thing...and in almost 25 years in the college/adult learning classroom, on one side or the other, i have met very few people good at hardware and software, or equally enamored with both
it is amazing how fast some people take to coding and i got in this class because they needed an extra body or else the class would get cancelled like a lot of the CS program did since nobody wants to have anything to do with computers in northern california...we saw the effects of dot.bomb close up and have not recovered
so jumping into java, without taking the suggested DOS, C++, and visual basic...is a crazy idea for a hardware person like me
but it's fun
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