October 2008
Beginner to intermediate
680 pages
16h 48m
English
We occasionally have a need to develop a command line–driven application—i.e., an application that doesn't have a formal GUI front-end for either soliciting input from the user or for displaying output to the user. Running a program from the command line is also useful during code development, because debugging messages can be written to appear on the console window. When building command line–driven applications, we need to be able to
Accept input, either by
Reading data from the command line, in the form of command-line arguments, or
Accepting keyboard input as typed by the user
Display textual messages to the user, including both prompts for input as well as feedback on operations that have been ...
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