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 ...

This project is a simple, yet effective, demonstration of a console-based user interface in Java. It showcases a hierarchical menu system that allows users to navigate through different options and ...

When running a Java program in Eclipse IDE that uses Scanner.nextLine() for user input, the console fails to reposition the input cursor correctly after an exception or invalid input. Even though the ...