It has always been a mystery to me: Why do instructors teach Java always subject students to console-based input with the JDK’s Scanner, Console or InputStream classes? Using a command prompt or ...

Examples of straightforward Scanner methods to get data such as floats, doubles or text include: If those two advanced topics don’t intimidate the developer, then user input with Java’s Scanner class ...

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().