The best way to teach the concept of Java user input to new software developers is to show them how to use the highly visual and user-friendly JOptionPane class from the Swing package. With one simple ...

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 ...

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 ...