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.

Classes and objects in Java must be initialized before they are used. You’ve previously learned that class fields are initialized to default values when classes are loaded, and that objects are ...

Here's a quick look at the three types of class loaders and everything you need to know to work with them in your Java programs. Java class loaders are a component of the Java virtual machine (JVM) ...

A Java string is a sequence of characters that exists as an object of the class java.lang. Java strings are created and manipulated through the string class. Once created, a string is immutable -- its ...

class Foo { private final TimerFactory timerFactory; boolean x; Foo(TimerFactory timerFactory) { this.timerFactory = timerFactory; } /** Toggles the value of x after ...

When you use a delay() function in an Arduino sketch, the processor stops everything it is doing until this delay is completed. That is called a blocking delay, because it blocks the processor until ...

Inheritance is one of the most powerful concepts in all of programming. Without it, it’d be tough to do many of the cool things we do. One of my favorite games as a kid was Conquer 2.0. The game was ...

The Java language libraries include a "swing timer," which lets you add a countdown timer on your Java forms. You set up the timer's properties such as the amount of time that passes before a function ...