Useful Links for Java Basics

"How to" links for various basic topics

File I/O

• A simple tutorial and code example for reading and writing to/from simple text files using File Streams
• You can creating a non-existent directory with the mkdir and mkdirs methods of the File class

Misc

• Random Numbers in Java by Doug Baldwin.

Exceptions

• Learn how to print a stack trace to debug Java exceptions from Developer's Daily Pure Java Department

Collections in Java 5.0

Brian Sheehan of CISC474, 06S writes:Here is a nice tutorial and explanation of the changes to the collection types that came into effect with Java 5.0

• http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/29207/1763/page/1 (Note: There are two pages to this tutorial, the link to the second page is at the bottom of the first page)
• http://www.course.com/computerscience/Java5.0article.cfm