New features like auto-compile and the var keyword lower the bar for using Java, for beginners and veterans alike. Let’s take a look at what’s cooking in this new, friendlier Java. var.

When you initialize Java arrays with the new keyword, the size argument is of type int. The 32-bit Java int can go to a maximum of 2,147,483,647, so that is the theoretical maximum Java array size.

One thing I don’t like about Java’s Scanner class, especially when it’s taught to novice Java programmers, is that it introduces several advanced concepts. Specifically, these are: Import statements — ...