Postremus

Just for programming, no. I am personally still only running an Intel HD4000 integrated graphics for programming an very light gaming. Works okay for me. Running anything programming related from an HDD is a pain.. Builds take too long in my opinion. I would go with something like the samsung 850 evo 1TB SSD (or some other 1TB SSD) and just don't worry about space anymore. I am currently using some configuration of the Thinkpad T530 and I'm pretty happy using it for school, and programming at home.

What do you want to do? Which "art" library do you mean? If you want to design UI's, use something like swing or awt.

Have you tried to use the REST API of http://www.theimdbapi.org/ ? For example, https://theimdbapi.org/api/movie?movie_id=tt0241527 returns data which also contains the genre's of the movie.

Set your JAVA_HOME environment variable. See https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/setting-the-java_home-variable-in-windows-8895.html

In eclipse go to "Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Installed JRE's ". There you can add your jdk installation directory. You do not need to install the jdk to the eclipse directory.

Looks to me like the value of pos is null. Can you please check if any of your variables is null, please? If any of them is null, you have to insert DBNull.Value instead, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/system.data.sqlclient.sqlparametercollection.addwithvalue(v=vs.110).aspx

What exception is thrown, that gets swallowed by the catch block?