Following my introduction to Java through the AP Computer Science A course I examined the use of the Scanner class, which takes in user input and stores the data in a variety of ways.
In this simple exercise I imported the scanner class, instantiated a new element of it by the name of “kb” and used it to collect input for the name, age, and hourly wage of the user. That data is then concatenated with a string and printed in the terminal.
link to this code on my github
As I was doing this example exercise I was curious as to why the default name for a standard Scanner object is “kb”. After a bit of research I learned that it’s short for “keyboard”, from which the user would type their input into the program. It’s quite interesting!