java.util.NoSuchElementException

Are you kidding me? How are we supposed to know what that means? We're paying for this site, not for users to copy paste confusing jargon we're not exposed to and tell us to research it.

in response to typetypetypetype: at the time i posted that i don't think i had code to look at. Absent this, hoping the technical explanation might trigger something with Gonzalo Torres del Fierro seemed my best bet. The first step to debugging is to recreate the error. Absent code and the precise actions being taken to produce the fault, it's difficult to assist. FYI, i don't think i was advocating using eclipse to run the problem, but if the code works fine in another environment, it might suggest your classes are written properly.

In reply to Simon:

To be clear, I was confused if you were kidding or not, not being aggressive :)

I know what Eclipse is because I've watched external videos but here's the thing:

This site pitches itself as a way for someone with no coding experience to jump into coding. I have some experience with Python, but none with Java. So why would eclipse even matter? It hasn't been introduced into Craig's course.

Every lesson I take gives errors that aren't easily solved or explained, and I quite often catch MY OWN errors such as misplaced ; or missing ;, but I still feel like the system isn't addressing core concerns of new programmers.

in response to typetypetypetype: you sounded maybe more frustrated. Sorry about the eclipse business. I misread your exchange with Jessica Williams and was worried i might have accidentally driven people to use eclipse (i mistakenly thought she'd abandoned workspaces to follow in Eclipse). You should be able to get by with workspaces.

As for the difficulty: It's not your imagination. Java's a tricky beast. It's pretty technical (lots of syntax, 1000s of classes, strict). I just looked online at a book called Java: A beginner's guide. It's 700 pages. The tutor is clearly glossing over a lot of complexity - ie. the necessary details of how things work.

In response to Simon again, thank you, and I talked to Craig who gave some vital information:

If you're getting that error in repl, you compile outside of repl only to troubleshoot it. I didn't understand why people said to compile when he didn't have to stop and compile inside repl. Once I compiled outside of repl, I found my error very easily.

Confused, more than frustrated, the frustration is against paying $50 a month for a site that's no better or worse than the free solutions out there :D

Appreciate your attempts to help either way! No hate to the community!

is this in reference to a challenge or something? I can use a similar set of code to our to create a PezDispenser object (see the main method) in eclipse. In some other environment, you might need to get rid of the system.out.println.

public class PezDispenser {

    public static final int MAX_PEZ= 12;
    private String mCharacterName ;
    private int mPezCount = 0;

    public void load() { 
        mPezCount = MAX_PEZ; 
    }

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        PezDispenser pez = new PezDispenser("Yoda");
        System.out.println(pez.getCharacterName());

    }

    public PezDispenser(String characterName){
        mCharacterName = characterName;
        //mPezCount; //not sure what this line does.
    }
    public String getCharacterName() {
        return mCharacterName; 
    }
}

don't know, but your code is missing the new keyword prior to the the attempt to create a PezDispenser. Otherwise, could you post your code (consult the markdown cheatsheet) and whether this is in reference to a treehouse challenge (if so, which).

You can post a snapshot of your workspace if you're still having trouble with this.

the code in PezDispenser looks okay. I copied it into https://repl.it/languages/java and ran it without issue. Tested population and that every method seemed to work. I just tried it in workspaces. I copied your code across and saved it. Then ran the following:

treehouse:~/workspace$ javac PezDispenser.java                                         
treehouse:~/workspace$ java-repl                                                       
Welcome to JavaREPL version 303 (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, Java 1.8.0_65)     
Type expression to evaluate, :help for more options or press tab to auto-complete.     
java> :load PezDispenser.java                                                          
Loaded source file from PezDispenser.java                                              
java> PezDispenser pf = new PezDispenser("Yoda");                                      
PezDispenser pf = PezDispenser@14cfeedc                                                
java> pf.getCharacterName();                                                           
java.lang.String res1 = "Yoda"                                                         
java>                                                                                  
Terminating...                                                                         
treehouse:~/workspace$                                                            

My code is the same, and I am getting the same error

Hi,

Are you saying the solution is to just not use the workspace we're paying for?