HOW TO START EACH CS106 PROJECT IN INTELLIJ:

1. File | New | Project from Version Control... (or Get from VCS at the Welcome window).
2. Enter https://github.com/ProfessorStrenn/JavaCoreTemplate for the URL.
3. In the Directory textbox, change the last directory element from JavaCoreTemplate to the name of your project - e.g. MMarciano_RockCountdown_F35. Click Clone.

A SIMPLER JAVA

The template's src/cs106 folder includes a Main.java class that is ready to go. It has a bunch of functionality statically imported, allowing you to do things like:

println

Eliminate the EEEVIL System.out. and just use:

println("Hello");

readLine

Read a line of text from the console:

String s = readLine();

readFile

Read a whole file into a String with a single line of code:

String quakeText = readFile("4.5_week.atom");

readFileAsLines

Read a file into a list of Strings:

List<String> words = readFileAsLines("dict.txt");

writeFile

Write a string to a file:

writeFile("file.txt", str);

writeFileAsLines

Write a list of strings to a file:

writeFileAsLines("lines.txt", list);

printf

printf w/o requiring System.out. in front:

printf("%d words in %s\n", words.size(), path);
print("Hello");

parseInt/Long/Float/Double/Boolean

Parse ints, floats, etc w/o having to put Integer. in front:

int age = parseInt(text);

listOf and mapOf

Easily create mutable lists and maps.

var list = listOf("This", "That", "The other");
var map = mapOf("key1", value1, "key2", value2);

range

Use range() to loop in a pythonic manner:

for (var x : range(10))
	println("Hello " + x);

join, substringsBetween, substringBefore, substringAfter, reverse, and more

The JavaCoreTemplate includes the exceptional StringUtils , which has join, substringsBetween, reverse, etc. For example:

String[] titles = substringsBetween(quakesXml, "<title>", "</title>");

commons-io

Use IOUtils.toString() to easily read from an URL into a String, and FileUtils.copyUrlToFile() to read from an URL into a file.

// Get the weather in Santa Barbara
var url="https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast?latitude=34.41&longitude=-119.71&current_weather=true&temperature_unit=fahrenheit&windspeed_unit=mph&precipitation_unit=inch&timezone=America%2FLos_Angeles";
var response=IOUtils.toString(new URL(url),StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

PMD

PMD support, including a tailored set of rules (cs106.ruleset).

STATIC IMPORT OF CORE FUNCTIONALITY

JavaCoreTemplate's Main class already has the useful functions statically imported. To add this functionality to other classes, simply put the following static imports at the top of the .java file:

import static sbcc.Core.*;
import static org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.*;
import static java.lang.System.*;
import static java.lang.Math.*;