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 ...

Are you tired of initializing Java Scanners for each input you use? Well, so am I. This simple concept's main purpose is to shed some insight on how Java Scanners can be verbose, but that doesn't have ...