Creating an ArrayList

[onlyme5]

Good day,

Firstly I feel I must apologise, I understand that what I'm about to ask may appear to frustrate some of you who may be more experienced, however, I just don't have a clue, I can't get my head around Java, I've tried, I've read books, attended lectures and surfed the net... I just don't get it.

On to my question.

my understanding creating an arraylist is as follows

ArrayList<NAME> MyList = new Array List <NAME>));

yet when I input this in my programme my compiler said t was incorrect.

[JosAH]

Good day,

Firstly I feel I must apologise, I understand that what I'm about to ask may appear to frustrate some of you who may be more experienced, however, I just don't have a clue, I can't get my head around Java, I've tried, I've read books, attended lectures and surfed the net... I just don't get it.

On to my question.

my understanding creating an arraylist is as follows

ArrayList<NAME> MyList = new Array List <NAME>));

yet when I input this in my programme my compiler said t was incorrect.

What happens if you do this instead?

ArrayList<NAME> MyList = new ArrayList<NAME>();
 

Assuming that NAME is a type by itself. Think of a type name such as List or
ArrayList followed by a <type> as a specialized type, i.e. only 'type' things are
accepted as elements of the List or ArrayList.

kind regards,

Jos

[r035198x]

Good day,

Firstly I feel I must apologise, I understand that what I'm about to ask may appear to frustrate some of you who may be more experienced, however, I just don't have a clue, I can't get my head around Java, I've tried, I've read books, attended lectures and surfed the net... I just don't get it.

On to my question.

my understanding creating an arraylist is as follows

ArrayList<NAME> MyList = new Array List <NAME>));

yet when I input this in my programme my compiler said t was incorrect.

Because it is incorrect. You should probably burn all your books and put your lecturers on the defenestration list. They all taught you the wrong things. Get the tutorial pointed to by this page and read that.

P.S I'll have to rename this thread to something more appropriate.

[vipinkrajput]

Good day,

Firstly I feel I must apologise, I understand that what I'm about to ask may appear to frustrate some of you who may be more experienced, however, I just don't have a clue, I can't get my head around Java, I've tried, I've read books, attended lectures and surfed the net... I just don't get it.

On to my question.

my understanding creating an arraylist is as follows

ArrayList<NAME> MyList = new Array List <NAME>));

yet when I input this in my programme my compiler said t was incorrect.

NAME must be a type.