How come every time i type in "javac ExampleProgram.java" in the command window prompt it says "'javac' is not recognized as an

Question

Please help I don't know what to do and i really want to learn how to code.

Answer 1

Several possibilities:
1. You didn't have your JDK installed. Download and install Oracle JDK or OpenJDK.
2. You didn't correctly set the environment variable. In Windows, set PATH; in Linux, configure $PATH.

Answer 2

you have to add your javac in the windows environment variables

Answer 3

how do i do that?

Answer 4

Click the windows button and type environment variables and you should see with the same name

Answer 5

Click it and o the the second box got to path

Answer 6

Click edit path and add the location of the Java folder

Answer 7

okay so i did that but now it gives me a message saying "javac: file not found: ExampleProgram.java" even though i already made the ExampleProgram.java file, what do i do?

Answer 8

because your doing it wrong

Answer 9

you need to located the entire java JDK folder

Answer 10

I set the Path to C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_121\bin and it seems like it worked because i received a different message but now it says javac: file not found: ExampleProgram.java so it seems like I'm stuck again

Answer 11

one the command prompt have you located where the file is

Answer 12

no how do you do that?

Answer 13

type cd\ enter
then cd c:\... the file location

Answer 14

There we go it finally worked thank you so much for helping me out here now I can finally move on with the next step! :D

Answer 15

no problem