Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The easiest way to garner user input in a Java program is to use the System’s Console 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(). It ...

Java’s String class encapsulates an array of bytes. A byte can be converted to a char, in which case, String becomes an array of characters used to compose words, sentences, or any other data you want ...