In prior Java 101 articles, I referred to the concepts of redirection, standard input device, and standard output device. To demonstrate inputting data, several examples called System.in.read ().

Java Scanner vs Console for user input The easiest way to garner input from the user in a Java program is through the Console class. But Java’s Console class has two big disadvantages: It does not ...

Implement a Java Scanner nextChar method Naturally, all Java developers, after learning the Java Scanner class has no nextChar method, want to implement one of their own. It’s not that hard. By ...

Imagine that your typical Java array is an Excel spreadsheet. Were that the case, you’d have created a table with just a single column. We might consider it a “one dimensional” database, in ...