'Hello' does not want to compile and interpret

Question

I recently downloaded the latest JDK Update 12 from the sun website.
I typed the basic hello program. The problem is in the compiling and interpreting of the program. In the command prompt, I made a new directory(folder) titled javacoding; in which I also saved the source code for the hello world program. After which i switched to it and I set the path of bin containing the compiler and interpreter to this directory. I typed in the following; javac Hello.java.
I set the path thus: C:\javacoding> set path =%path%;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_11\bin;.;
However, the program does not compile and the following message is displayed instead:
'javac' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Here is a sample of the program I typed
class Hello
/*This program displays Hello*/
public static void main (String args[])
//This is the main method
System.out.println("Hello, World!");
For the record this was done on a Vista system.
Thank you.

Answer 1

Melanie_Green wrote:
Variable ___________ Value
Path ______________ C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_11\bin;
// Set this for both user and system variable*@Mel:* Ummm. Not to be too rude, but I'm almost certain that's incorrect, or atleast sub-optimal.
Presuming that the OP (that's you Ikenna) is a system administrator on there own box, then just set the system PATH... all users will pick it up from there... also setting at the user-level just appends a useless duplicate entry to the PATH, slowing down (unsucessful) path-searches... not that you'd notice.
*@OP:* Show us a dir of your jdk-bin directory... we'll need the exact command and it's output (at least down to javac.exe)... Question is: Is that directory exactly what's in your PATH? so also show us the command and output of echo %PATH% ... just post the whole command session (typos and all) between a pair of {code} tags.
Cheers. Keith.