You call this programming?

In the past couple of months that I've been learning Java on-the-job (i.e., incorrectly, with no formal guidance), I think I've spent the majority of my time doing the following, in order of how much time I've actually spent doing it:

1) Trying to convert properly between several roughly equivalent types in order to feed data from package X into a method from package Y.

2) Figuring out which package contains what I’m looking for.

3) Figuring out why eclipse is F’ed up.