Its late and I am baffled once more. I am wondering what ever possesed me to take this Java programming course online, but here it is.

The example that was given has a list of 8 numbers (2, 9, 8, 7, 5, 4, 6, 1) and used the maximum number and swapped it to the last position, I need to take the smallest number and place it in the first position.

I thought it would be no problem but I was wrong; I am getting a nosuchmethoderror:main when I attempt to run the program.


package selectionSort;

public class SelectionSort {
/**The method for sorting the numbers*/
public static void selectionSort(double[] list) {
for (int i = list.length-1; i >= 1; i--) {
//Find the minimun in the list [0....i]
double currentMin = list[0];
int currentMinIndex = 0;

for (int j = 1; j >= i; j--){
if (currentMin < list [j]) {
currentMin = list [j];
currentMinIndex = j;
}
}

//Swap list [i] with list [currentMinIndex] if necessary
if (currentMinIndex != i) {
list [currentMinIndex] = list [i];
list [i] = currentMin;
}
}
}
}


I know the error usually indicates that there is a mispelling in the main method, or no main method found. But the public class and public static void statements are exactly as in the book. What am I not getting?

Also, will did give the desired result?


Thanks in advance

Uh ... I don't see any "main()". So if you tried any equivalent of "java SelectionSort" (from the command line, from Jbuilder's "run", or any other method of starting Java with that particiular class) ... you'll get precisely that error!

So where *is* your "main()" supposed to be?

The example shown did not have a main() in the listing and from what I was reading, I thought that if you passed the paramenter by writing
selectionSort(double[] list)
you would not need to write main(string[] args)

just as in the example they gave in our book.