Very first steps in OCA Java SE 8 book

[Izabella Marton]

Hi,
could you explain how to run these lines?

$ javac Zoo.java
$ java Zoo Bronx Zoo

Am I supposed to put them into the code of the Zoo class? I have tried to do so in Eclipse, but it gives error messages (of course). Sorry, I got lost at the very beginning... not very promissing  

Thanks on beforehand! Iza

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Welcome to CodeRanch!

Those two commands are meant to be run at the command line (ex: the "cmd" program on Windows). We recommend preparing for the exam without your IDE (Eclipse) to learn the material better and get better at spotting code that doesn't compile for the exam.

[Izabella Marton]

Hi, thanks!

Unfortunately, I have another problem. When I tried to run javac packagea\ClassA.java I got this error message: illegal character: '\u0000'

I have already tried to open the java file in Notepad++ and save it in ANSI coding, but it didn't work.

Could you help me, please?

Thanks! Izabella

[Gertjan Zwaveling]

Hi,
It's hard to tell where that comes from; you might try saving it as plain text in notepad. The normal encoding for the compiler is UTF-8.

Did you get the Zoo-program to work?

Good luck, the beginning can be a bit frustrating, but you will get it to work eventually!

Gertjan