In this video, we take a moment to purposefully break our helloworld program, thereby giving us the opportunity to see errors as they happen at compile time, and learn how we might respond to the errors. This demonstration also shows us how programming manually can be more complicated than programming with an IDE due to the feedback not happening as quickly when we make an error.

By purposefully breaking our code, we get used to seeing some errors that we might encounter later. The experience of having broken the code and seeing the direct result may help us to fix errors later when we encounter similar messages from the compiler.

Please note: You will need to select the default folder installation path for the Java version you are on, including the correct current update number . Use that path when working with the environment and/or manual programming to execute the javac compiler and java runtime executable programs.