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The term SSCCE gets thrown around a lot in online programming forums. Its a simple acronym that stands for Short, Self Contained, Correct Example. But what is so important about an SSCCE? For starters, creating an SSCCE provides a very simple example that clearly demonstrates a given problem, helping one receive help and advice much quicker. But it also goes far beyond just that. Often just the process alone of writing an SSCCE will unveil the problem at hand. But even more important, the process ...

System.out.prinln is quite possibly the most useful debugging tool there is - especially for the beginner programmer with no knowledge of other tools such as debuggers, assertions, and/or loggers. System.out.println prints to the command line the values passed to the method as an argument (if an object is passed, the String returned by Object.toString() is printed). For debugging, this tool allows the programmer to evaluate a variable value at a certain position in the code. But that's only the ...

Hey everyone,

I have just added a new 'Media' page to the site. You can access it via the Navbar or here - http://www.javaprogrammingforums.com/media.php

The Media section contains Java tutorial videos from around the internet. Members have the option to submit their own videos, post comments, rate and share etc.

If anyone has any issues or questions, please PM me or comment on this post.

I have recently been working on getting the Articles part of the site complete. You will see the articles button in the navbar at the top of the site. The Articles page is a collection of Java Programming Articles which have been promoted from useful threads in the Forum.

The current Articles are written by the forum moderators and cover things from Common Java Mistakes through to General CS Concepts

Articles are not strictly reserved for moderators. If a forum member ...