hey im completely new to java, and programming, and this forum...anyway, i need some help of where to start. if anyone could recommend anything that would help it would be greatly appriciated. ultimatley, i want to get into game programming, but i fully understand that is WAY out of my league at the moment. thats kinda why i picked java because i belive jagex use java to program runescape (im sure some of u have heard of it)? once again, all help appriciated.

this is annoying! im going through all these tutorials and im getting really pissed off. i cant understand what they are saying, have no idea what things like applets and classes are, it just makes no sence. id love to be able to program, but i just dont understand it!

Please be patient dude.

Ok. Lets continue where we were in this thread:
http://www.gidforums.com/showthread.php?p=50017

You would've probably installed java in C:\Program Files\Java\jdk\bin
Check whether you have java in that location.

Or just search through your computer for javac.exe, and tell me the location.
For example, if your location is the same as i have, i.e in C:\Program Files\Java\jdk\bin, type this in your command prompt:
set path="C:\Program Files\Java\jdk\bin";
The path is a folder where javac and java are located.

After setting the path, just type javac, and find whether javac is recognized.

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ok, searched the computer and nothing came up, so maybe i didnt save it properly or something?

That means you didnt download Java Development Kit.
You downloaded just Java Runtime Environment.

Download J2SE or Java Development kit from the website.

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ok thanks, ill save it in my docs, so could u give me what i have to write? (sorry)

tried it again, i think i understand wat its kinda saying now, umm its not recognised when i type that in.

ok, hopefully today ill be able to get a java book from my local library, so maybe my problems will be gone <- gone away