I wish I knew

Yes I wish I knew how to load the programs onto the JCreator, seams I have had trouble with the Java SE, then the JDK; now still having trouble with the projects, workspace, file name. I have spent many wasted nights just trying to get the programs to compile, or run. I have not oot one program to run at home yet!!!!!!!!! I thought it was working for a long time, and just the path wrong, but now I thing that we are not communicating. Still getting errors and the wrong path, and I don't know why. My computer seam different that the book talks about. Bruce