how do i set up java on a macbook air for my daughter to learn to code?

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how do i set up java on a macbook air for my daughter to learn to code?

My daughter wants to learn Java. She will be the captain of her high school FIRST robotics team this fall and needs to understand Java to be able to program the robot. She has a MacBook Air 13 inch 2017 running High Sierra. She plans to follow 30 days of code. She previously installed JDK 10.0.2 from Oracle (last summer) and installed NetBeans as her IDE. We can’t seem to get NetBeans to see the JDK. She thinks her friends code Java on Visual Studios. She installed that but we can’t figure it out either. I tried installing JDK 12.0.2 on my desktop Mac running El Capitan (appears to have reached its OS limit... no updates) and I installed NetBeans but it doesn’t seem to see the JDK. I haven’t coded in 30 years (FORTRAN 77 in university) way back before Windows. This is new territory for me. Any advice, clues, help... usually Apple has simple solutions but I haven’t found one for this.

Posted on Jul 22, 2019 5:20 PM

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nuclear user Author

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Jul 23, 2019 11:30 AM in response to nuclear user

Thank you zmclearan. Great minds think alike. I had already found this article and tried to follow the instructions for installing Java and Netbeans. Unfortunately, when I click on new project in netbeans nothing happens and when I click on Java platforms, nothing happens. There are no menus or any changes to the screen. I suspect that netbeans doesn’t see java. But there may be another reason. Could I perhaps have a preference somewhere set to not allow it to work? Interestingly, when I look for java on my desktop Mac in preferences I cannot find it ( I do find it in Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines). On daughter’s laptop, the java icon shows in preferences beside the flash player icon. I suspect some sort of incompatibility somewhere.

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QuickPost

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Jul 22, 2019 7:25 PM in response to nuclear user

Hello,

This 3rd party website should have all the answers to how to develop Java applications for Macintosh.

MacWorld

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Jul 23, 2019 7:39 PM in response to nuclear user

Hello,

My apologies for the delayed response. It’s taken me a little bit of time to research a solution. This has definitely stumped me! I found this video on YouTube and it seemed to work for me. Give it a shot and let me know!

YouTube

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