Hi there!
My name is Steve, from Canberra, Australia.
Just started this course today. Looks great so far. However, I can't get the HardwareSimulator to fire up. Gives the following error:
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007fa073755009, pid=14178, tid=14179
#
# JRE version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (9.0) (build 9-internal+0-2016-04-14-195246.buildd.src)
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (9-internal+0-2016-04-14-195246.buildd.src, mixed mode, tiered, compressed oops, g1 gc, linux-amd64)
# Problematic frame:
# C [libjava.so+0x1d009] JNU_GetEnv+0x19
#
# Core dump will be written. Default location: Core dumps may be processed with "/usr/share/apport/apport %p %s %c %P" (or dumping to /home/steve/Coursera/nand2tetris/tools/core.14178)
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /home/steve/Coursera/nand2tetris/tools/hs_err_pid14178.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#
http://bugreport.java.com/bugreport/crash.jsp# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#
My java version is:
steve@chuthulu:~/Coursera/nand2tetris/tools$ java -version
openjdk version "9-internal"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 9-internal+0-2016-04-14-195246.buildd.src)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 9-internal+0-2016-04-14-195246.buildd.src, mixed mode)
Help - very stuck right now!