Thread: CMD WONT COMPILE MY .JAVA FILES

I'v tried everything, i'v tried to create new path in enviornment variables i tried adding this path -->(C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_20\bin) to the end of the default path doesnt work i uninstalled and reinstalled and did the same thing over and it didnt work am i editing the files wrong ? what i do is write the hello world program in eclipse to make sure there arent any errors then copy and paste in note pad++ save it as a .java file and it doesnt work i tried save it in regular notepad as .java laso and it doesnt work iv done every thing i could possibly find on youtube is this stuff outdated ? is there a new way? this one one of the errors ill get


C:\javat>javac helloworld.java
helloworld.java:1: error: '{' exp
public class helloworld.java {
^
and this is the code for that file im trying to compile

public class helloworld.java {
public static void main (String args[]){
System.out.println("hello world");
}
}

can any one help me please im new to java and i only have beginner experience in visual basic

Class names start with capital letters and the dot '.' is not a valid character for a class name.
Your class might look like this:

public class HelloWorld {
    public static void main (String args[]){
        System.out.println("hello world");
    }
}

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The class name SHOULD be capitalized and SHOULD NOT have .java as an extension. Eclipse should not have allowed that as a class name, so I think you must have changed something from the Eclipse version. Don't confuse the class name with the file name, because the file name SHOULD have the .java extension.

Oh, and you apparently didn't try everything.

thanks guys worked great