The easiest way to garner user input in a Java program is to use the System’s Console class. Introduced in Java 6, Java’s System Console class provides two simple methods to obtain user input: The ...

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().

The Java Scanner class is a simple, versatile, easy-to-use class that makes user input in Java relatively straightforward. To perform user input with the Scanner class, follow these steps: Found in ...