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 Console’s readPassword() method performs the same function as readLine(), with the following two exceptions:. readPassword() does not echo text back while the user types readPassword() encrypts ...

At this point, the Scanner still returns a String, although the String contains only one character. To complete the use case, you must convert this one-character String into a single Java char with ...