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Learn Java with Projects

You're reading from   Learn Java with Projects A concise practical guide to learning everything a Java professional really needs to know

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837637188
Length 598 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Maaike van Putten Maaike van Putten
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Dr. Seán Kennedy Dr. Seán Kennedy
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Java Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Java FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Variables and Primitive Data Types 4. Chapter 3: Operators and Casting 5. Chapter 4: Conditional Statements 6. Chapter 5: Understanding Iteration 7. Chapter 6: Working with Arrays 8. Chapter 7: Methods 9. Part 2: Object-Oriented Programming
10. Chapter 8: Classes, Objects, and Enums 11. Chapter 9: Inheritance and Polymorphism 12. Chapter 10: Interfaces and Abstract Classes 13. Chapter 11: Dealing with Exceptions 14. Chapter 12: Java Core API 15. Part 3: Advanced Topics
16. Chapter 13: Generics and Collections 17. Chapter 14: Lambda Expressions 18. Chapter 15: Streams – Fundamentals 19. Chapter 16: Streams: Advanced Concepts 20. Chapter 17: Concurrency 21. Index

Exercises

Let’s deal with some common unhappy path scenarios in our app. When these occur, we need our app to be able to recover from them:

  1. When reading and writing the dinosaur data, it is possible that the file cannot be opened due to different circumstances. Perhaps someone moved it, it’s in use, or something else. Your task is to simulate a situation where you’re trying to read from a file (that may not exist) and deal with the checked exception.
  2. While updating dinosaur data, invalid values could sometimes be provided. Write an updateDinosaurWeight method that takes a weight value and a Dinosaur object. If the weight value is less than zero, the method should throw IllegalArgumentException. Use a try-catch block to handle this exception. The handling can be a simple System.out.println for now.
  3. Even in exceptional circumstances, certain operations should always execute. For example, a daily audit of dinosaurs’ health should happen, whether...
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