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().

Notice how the output includes only the first String the Java Scanner read. The rest of the text is ignored. This is because the Scanner class tokenizes the input String based on any whitespace ...

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 ...