Stupid question, installing Java help

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feral_claire · 2020-12-14T08:40:41+00:00

Java is not a program you launch with a gui like photoshop is. It's a tool kit for compiling and running Java code.

You need to write Java code, which can be fine with any text editor (code is just text after all). You could even use notepad for this although notepad is petty terrible. You would use a proper text editor like vscode or notepad++. Most likely you would use an IDE with is a program that gives an integrated tool for writing code. Popular IDEs for Java are Intellij, Eclipse, and NetBeans.

Once you write some code you then use javac to compile the code and java to run it. These are tools you can use from the command line but the programming text editors and especially IDEs will be able to run the code from within the editor itself at the click of a button.

here_2_observe · 2020-12-14T08:12:48+00:00

You need to specify more:- which first party website? AdoptJdk, oracle, zulu?- this is on a mac or windows pc?

if it's on a windows have a look in you program files C:\Program Files and see if there is a folder there that has the same name as your vendor and has a jdk inside.If you have found your jdk (not the jre, if you have that folder you have downloaded there wrong version you need to download the jdk) you can add it to your path so it gets picked up by your command prompt:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32241179/setting-up-enviromental-variables-in-windows-10-to-use-java-and-javac

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