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SAMS Teach Yourself Programming with Java™ in 24 Hours, FOURTH EDITION
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SAMS Teach Yourself Programming with Java™ in 24 Hours, FOURTH EDITION

by Rogers Cadenhead
September 2005
Beginner
576 pages
13h 6m
English
Sams
Content preview from SAMS Teach Yourself Programming with Java™ in 24 Hours, FOURTH EDITION

Hour 20. Reading and Writing Files

There are numerous ways to represent data on a computer. You already have worked with one by creating objects—an object includes data in the form of variables and references to objects. It also includes methods that use the data to accomplish tasks.

To work with other kinds of data, such as files on your hard drive and documents on a web server, you can use the classes of the java.io package. The “io” part of its name stands for “input/output” and the classes are used to access a source of data, such as a hard drive, CD-ROM, or the computer's memory.

You can bring data into a program and send data out by using a communications system called streams, or objects that take information from one place to another. ...

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