So, I'm currently creating a planner as one of my first projects (just a simple console planner, tells you the date, who the owner is, and eventually the user will be able to input things on a list and read off the list.

I noticed when importing my code from IntellijIDE to Eclipse (Just wanted to try them both out so I'm giving Eclipse ago) that the IDE only flagged errors if I didn't import the needed classes in the Planner.java source file.

Here's some code so all this doesn't just sound like gibberish:

This is my Main file:

public class Main {

 public static void main(String[] args) {
	final String PLANNER_OWNER = Planner.getOwner();
	final String CURRENT_DATE = Planner.getCurrentDate();
	System.out.println("This planner belongs to " + PLANNER_OWNER + "\nToday is " + CURRENT_DATE);
	System.out.println("--------------------------------");
  }
	
} 

And currently my only Class is:

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.Date;

public class Planner {

    private static Scanner scanner;
    public static final String getOwner() {
        System.out.println("Who owns this planner? ");
        scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
        String name = scanner.nextLine();
    return name;
 }

public static final String getCurrentDate() {
    Date date = new Date();
    DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE");
    return  dateFormat.format(date);
 }
}    

So do I only need to import in my class file or is that bad practice? Also, if there's any other bad practices in this please let me know so I can not make a habit of them! This is the first thing I've built from a blank slate without tutorial help (besides documentation and already answered quora questions lol) So any advice would more than likely be extremely helpful!

p.s. if any of this is poorly formatted, or I use the wrong terminology for things I apologize it is both late and I'm a nooby at this stuff.

Edit: BTW this actually does work 100% as intended, it was simple but super fun to figure out

Also, here are screenshots of the code if you'd prefer to look at it with proper color coding Main.java Planner.java

I thought that I had posted this question 3 days ago. However, given that I've received no responses to that earlier and that I cannot locate that post on this site, I gather that said earlier post was not recorded or was not accepted as a result of some error on my part. At any rate I am trying again.

PROBLEM: My attempt to execute the import command in a console window results in the following error message:

C:\Users\rwhoe>

C:\Users\rwhoe>import java.util.Scanner

'import' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\rwhoe>

A search for “import command” via reddit r/javahelp suggests that other users do not have this problem. What am I missing?

ABOUT ME: I am a retired systems engineer and have extensive c++ programming experience but am a total newb to anything HTML or JAVA related. I recently completed the w3schools java tutorial.

ABOUT MY PC: My PC is a hp 64-bit machine running 64-bit Windows 11. I have downloaded and installed the following 64-bit java 21 JDK app for Windows from Oracle:

openjdk-21.0.1_windows-x64_bin

I set my environmental path variable to

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-21\bin, which successfully provides access to the java command and to the javac command.

Noob question. I made a simple project. The main method initializes a "Sort" object which has its own method called Bubblesort (which accepts an int[] ) . My folder structure is as follows

Main.java

    /Sorters
      /sorters
        Sort.class

What happened was, I manually made a folder called Sorters (not knowing that when you compile the sort java file with the '-d' flag, it will automatically make a folder. But instead of changing it, I decided to work with that.

However I'm not sure how to import the Sort class with the given folder structure.

Here is my Main dot java file

     package Sorters.sorters;
import sorters.Sort;
    public class Main{ public static void main(String[] Args){   
     int[] test = {2, 1, 8, 5, 18, 11, 16, 24, 12, 14, 13};

    Sort s1 = new Sort();

    s1.bubbleSort(test);



    for(int x=0; x<test.length; x++){
        System.out.print(test[x] + " , ");
    }

    System.out.println();
  

    }
    }

and here is my sort file

    package sorters;


public class Sort{

    public void bubbleSort(int[] arr){
        for(int x=arr.length-2; x>=1; x=x-1){
            for(int y=0; y<=x; y++){
                if(arr[y] > arr[y+1]){
                    swap(arr, y, y+1);
            }
        }
    }
}





private void swap(int[] arr, int Left, int Right){

int temp = arr[Right];
arr[Right] = arr[Left];
arr[Left] = temp;

}



}

What am I doing wrong? Doesn't the line "package Sorters.sorters" first navigate to the Sorters folder and then navigate to the inner sorters folder after the period symbol?