Real Newbie Question - I'm sure its dumb

[rulian]

Okay I started out with Head First Java this week.
I read a bit into it and tried the standard "Hello World" program
I've installed the JDK v .11 and its working fine running from comand prompt

so I tried this

public class greetings {
	public static void main()
	{
		System.out.print("hellO"); 
	}
}

in a file called greetings.java
I go into dos and type
javac greetings.java
if I dont get errors I get nothing, not even "hello"

[CJSLMAN]

If you didn't get any errors, that's good. What you did with the javac command is just compile your code. This will have produced another file named "greetings.class". Now you have to run the class file with the following command:

java greetings

Luck,
CJSL

[rulian]

Awesome that worked!
Guess that serves me right for skipping ahead in the book.
Coming out of PHP which tends to do everything for you certainly will be interesting. Thanks

[CJSLMAN]

You're welcome.

[Fubarable]

Just that it compiled on first go around means you're ahead of most starters. Good luck.