Hour 18. Handling Errors in a Program
What You’ll Learn in This Hour:
• How to respond to exceptions in your Java programs
• How to create methods that ignore an exception, leaving it for another class to handle
• How to use methods that cause exceptions
• How to create your own exceptions
Errors, the bugs, blunders, and typos that prevent a program from running correctly, are a natural part of the software development process. “Natural” is probably the kindest word that’s ever been used to describe them. In my own programming, when I can’t find the cause of an elusive error, I use words that would make a gangsta rapper blush.
Some errors are flagged by the compiler and prevent you from creating a class. Others are noted by the interpreter in ...
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