Really new to Java programming and I'm trying to make a sorting algorithm. | Together Java | Page 1

dreamy haloBOT Dec 29, 2025, 2:52 AM

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<@&987246746478460948> please have a look, thanks.

wide vortex Dec 29, 2025, 2:53 AM

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what are the errors ?

tardy cliff Dec 29, 2025, 2:53 AM

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these

📎 compile-1766940794671.log

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/home/natedouglasmusic/Documents/ArrayV-main/src/main/java/io/github/arrayv/sorts/select/MagnetSort.java:40: error: illegal start of expression
            private int minn = array.max();
            ^
/home/natedouglasmusic/Documents/ArrayV-main/src/main/java/io/github/arrayv/sorts/select/MagnetSort.java:42: error: illegal start of type
            for (int k = i; k < length - 1; k++) {
            ^
/home/natedouglasmusic/Documents/ArrayV-main/src/main/java/io/github/arrayv/sorts/select/MagnetSort.java:42: error: > expected
            for (int k = i; k < length - 1; k++) {
                                       ^
/home/natedouglasmusic/Documents/ArrayV-main/src/main/java/io/github/arrayv/sorts/select/MagnetSort.java:42: error: <identifier> expected
            for (int k = i; k < length - 1; k++) {
                                             ^
/home/natedouglasmusic/Documents/ArrayV-main/src/main/java/io/github/arrayv/sorts/select/MagnetSort.java:51: error: illegal start of type
            for (int l = i; l < (pos + i)/2; l++) {
            ^
/home/natedouglasmusic/Documents/ArrayV-main/src/main/java/io/github/arrayv/sorts/select/MagnetSort.java:51: error: illegal start of type
            for (int l = i; l < (pos + i)/2; l++) {
                                ^
/home/natedouglasmusic/Documents/ArrayV-main/src/main/java/io/github/arrayv/sorts/select/MagnetSort.java:51: error: <identifier> expected
            for (int l = i; l < (pos + i)/2; l++) {
                                    ^
/home/natedouglasmusic/Documents/ArrayV-main/src/main/java/io/github/arrayv/sorts/select/MagnetSort.java:51: error: <identifier> expected
            for (int l = i; l < (pos + i)/2; l++) {
                                              ^
/home/natedouglasmusic/Documents/ArrayV-main/src/main/java/io/github/arrayv/sorts/select/MagnetSort.java:56: error: <identifier> expected
            Delays.sleep(0.025);
                        ^

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/home/natedouglasmusic/Documents/ArrayV-main/src/main/java/io/github/arrayv/sorts/select/MagnetSort.java:56: error: illegal start of type
            Delays.sleep(0.025);
                         ^
/home/natedouglasmusic/Documents/ArrayV-main/src/main/java/io/github/arrayv/sorts/select/MagnetSort.java:58: error: class, interface, enum, or record expected
    }
    ^
11 errors

wide vortex Dec 29, 2025, 2:55 AM

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tardy cliff these

your ide says nothing?

tardy cliff Dec 29, 2025, 2:56 AM

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There should be a 3kb text file attached

wide vortex Dec 29, 2025, 2:57 AM

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wide vortex your ide says nothing?

@tardy cliff?

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ah you can't put private for a local variable

tardy cliff Dec 29, 2025, 2:58 AM

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ohh okay

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What about the for loops?

wide vortex Dec 29, 2025, 3:00 AM

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tardy cliff What about the for loops?

wdym

tardy cliff Dec 29, 2025, 3:01 AM

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There are also errors given for the for loops

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here's the most recent error log

frozen halo Dec 29, 2025, 3:08 AM

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You are missing a semicolon, end bracket, or something like that. Are you not using an IDE?

tardy cliff Dec 29, 2025, 3:08 AM

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no i'm using a text editor lol

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and them importing the file into a software and these are the errors that it gives

frozen halo Dec 29, 2025, 3:09 AM

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You mean compiling it using javac?

tardy cliff Dec 29, 2025, 3:09 AM

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idk

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i'm hitting the import button and it's saying 'no'

frozen halo Dec 29, 2025, 3:10 AM

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That's the full message eh?

tardy cliff Dec 29, 2025, 3:10 AM

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no lol it gives me a bunch of cryptic errors and creates these error log text files

frozen halo Dec 29, 2025, 3:10 AM

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Usually the reason is at the very start of the error message.

tardy cliff Dec 29, 2025, 3:11 AM

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uh hold on

frozen halo Dec 29, 2025, 3:11 AM

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But like I said, long errors like that usually mean some little thing like missing brace,bracket,semicolon

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Wrong number of parameters.

tardy cliff Dec 29, 2025, 3:12 AM

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(2nd one first)

tardy cliff Dec 29, 2025, 3:13 AM

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frozen halo Wrong number of parameters.

i don't think stuff like that is it becuase if it was i'm sure it'd tell me

frozen halo Dec 29, 2025, 3:14 AM

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Surely you could just post the code here. Someone would see the error. But curious what this nebulous "import code" thing is.

tardy cliff Dec 29, 2025, 3:14 AM

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Here's the code

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And here's the whole process

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uh one sec

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@frozen halo

frozen halo Dec 29, 2025, 3:18 AM

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So you didn't write this? Just running it? Does it work for anything else?

tardy cliff Dec 29, 2025, 3:18 AM

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I wrote magnetsort
Not the program

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haven't tried anything else yet but still

wide vortex Dec 29, 2025, 3:18 AM

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tardy cliff Here's the code

please use an ide like intellij

tardy cliff Dec 29, 2025, 3:20 AM

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i don't want to bc i don't know how well that would work
esp. considering that arrayv is designed to handle specifically cases like this

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mostly concerned about the imports

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-# also i've been asking about the for loops and i've gotten no explanation on the for loops other than guesses that are unrelated

frozen halo Dec 29, 2025, 3:25 AM

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You seem to be using a array visualizer program which accepts and compiles your code and runs it. You've tried no other program yet to see if it's your program or the array visualizer. Also, maybe there is other logs as you've alluded to, but they are as un-investigated or whatever.

tardy cliff Dec 29, 2025, 3:25 AM

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I'm desinging this for arrayv

frozen halo Dec 29, 2025, 3:25 AM

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Is this the state of things?

tardy cliff Dec 29, 2025, 3:26 AM

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the other logs are just old logs

frozen halo Dec 29, 2025, 3:26 AM

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Have you contacted the person, people or github issues page of this software?

tardy cliff Dec 29, 2025, 3:27 AM

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I don't think they're the problem

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They know what they're doing

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I don't

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I think I'm the thing wrong with this situation

frozen halo Dec 29, 2025, 3:27 AM

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Could be, there's probably instructions somewhere.

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Maybe delete that .cache/compile folder

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Maybe try to get some other sort program to run.

tardy cliff Dec 29, 2025, 3:30 AM

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Not the problem

tardy cliff Dec 29, 2025, 3:30 AM

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frozen halo Maybe delete that .cache/compile folder

That's just for error logs

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I have no way to put this lightly but neither of you have helped so far

frozen halo Dec 29, 2025, 3:49 AM

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Yea, sorry, we didn't write the thing. You can down load intellij for free. Put your code in there. check it out.

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sorry, what is this array.max() shit?

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arrays don't have methods

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You don't put public on local variables either.

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int minn = Integer.MAX_VALUE;

tardy cliff Dec 29, 2025, 4:08 AM

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-# the people in vc were more helpful

tardy cliff Dec 29, 2025, 6:13 AM

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Got it working

#Really new to Java programming and I'm trying to make a sorting algorithm.