Java matured very quickly in most respects after it was first introduced, but for a long time, printing was one of Java’s weakest points. In fact, Java 1.0 didn’t offer any support for printing at all ...

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 ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Sometimes it’s nice to format the output of a console based Java program in a friendly way. The ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. It’s much easier to format an int with printf than a float or double, because decimal precision ...