Hour 21. Handling Exceptions
What You’ll Learn in This Hour
• Using exceptions in today’s software
• Throwing exceptions
• Working with the try/catch/final blocks
• Logging incidents
Rethinking Exceptions and Errors
Most programming languages today provide some method for handling exceptions—events that must interrupt the normal flow of processing because that normal flow of processing cannot handle the event that has occurred, such as an attempt to divide a number by zero. Modern exception handling usually provides a structure that lets you react programmatically to the type of error and, if possible, take remedial action.
Compared to software from a decade or longer ago, today’s best software is much less verbose. Instead of reporting each ...
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