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I moved your code around. I think it now does what you wanted. It actually needs some changes to be good OOP, but I wanted it to still be reconizable to you. [code]import java.util.*; public class isVowel { static Scanner console = new Scanner(System.in); //creates the new object scanner public …

Personally, I like Eclipse. Certainly better than NetBeans. These guys are right though, you don't really need 2 learning curves at once. As a first tool, I'd recommend TextPad. It's mostly text editor with a lil'bit of IDE mixed in. [url]http://www.textpad.com/index.html[/url] [url]http://www.textpad.com/support/faq/java.html[/url]

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