I just installed Eclipse, can't seem to get it to work

Question

I'm very new to programming. But I started out with Eclipse after I couldn't seem to get CodeBlocks to function properly. Now when I installed it, and ran it for the first time (started an empty project and all), an error message was displayed

Building Workspace has encountered a problem. Errors occurred during the build.

I got curious and clicked on details, which showed

Errors occurred during the build.
Errors running builder 'CDT Builder' on project 'Rand1'.
java.lang.NullPointerException.

I got a screenshot of the situation tagged to the post Here

Answer 1

You can try the following:

1. run eclipse.exe with the -clean parameter. to do this either navigate to where you installed eclipse and go to properties on eclipse.exe and add -clean in the end of the parameter
2. run it via command. i recommend you to run via command so that it wont be a permenant thing whenever you start eclipse