Thread: So where to begin.

Good afternoon all,

I'm new to Java and to be honest I learn more by diving in the deep end and getting stuck in.

With that said, I have a project in mind

A program to do the following.

1, Go to a user specified directory
2, Make a list of all folders in the parent directory and store the directorys list in a string array.
3, Go to a second user specified directory
4, Make a list of all the folders in the parent directory and store the directorys list in a second string array
5, Compare the two arrays and output the lines that have identical content.

Example output

Array 1
A
B
C

Array 2
A
D
E

Output
A

Where would be the best place to start with something like this?

Kind regards,

Yoda

Originally Posted by Norm

write a method that is given the path to a directory and have that method create the list of the directories in that directory
and return the list. The File class has methods that will be useful.

Thanks Norm,

Can you recommend any reading material that talks about how to implement this, I find it difficult to think of search keywords to do a forum search.

ATB

Yoda