Doesn't understand the " Exceptions " Video clearly ?

Thank You Sir..but sir can you be more specific by giving me an example to grasp this catch/try method clearly !!

Hi Tony

Sure, the easiest way to explain this using methods you've probably already used is shown below, the code shows a couple of simple lines where you prompt the user to enter their name and then their age. Now you are fully expecting them to enter data like "Steve" and 25 which (run the code to test yourself in console) if they enter those values works just fine.

import java.io.Console;

public class Introductions {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Console console = System.console();

        String name = System.console().readLine("What is your name? ");
        int age = Integer.parseInt(System.console().readLine("What is your age? "));

        console.printf("Hello, %s your are %d years old\n",name,age);

  }
}

You as the programmer are aware that the call to readline always returns a string, but you need the age to be an integer so you parse straight off of the returned value which is fine right? it works.... Well no, not if the user enters something unexpected such as the string "twenty-five", if they enter this you will see something like:

What is your name? Daniel                                                                                       
What is your age? Thirty                                                                                        
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "Thirty"                          
        at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:65)                        
        at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:580)                                                         
        at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:615)                                                         
        at Introductions.main(Introductions.java:10)     

You should be aware of these possibilities when writing code and the best way to prevent these errors where your code exits/crashes is to use a try/catch block to try the code and catch any error that may occur.

import java.io.Console;

public class Introductions {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Console console = System.console();

        try{
          String name = System.console().readLine("What is your name? ");
          int age = Integer.parseInt(System.console().readLine("What is your age? "));
          console.printf("Hello, %s your are %d years old\n",name,age);
        }catch(NumberFormatException e){

          console.printf("No way am I gonna crash!!! enter an integer value next time\n\n");

        }


  }
}

The code above wraps the statements that 'MIGHT' cause a crash inside the try block, if any of the code inside the block results in an error the program will check to see if the exception thrown matches any of your exception types, if it does it will run the code inside that block without crashing and allow you to make changes in your code to accommodate.

If you run the script above and when prompted for your age enter the string thirty you will see the print out "No way am I gonna crash!!! enter an integer value next time" this is because trying to parse an integer from a string that doesn't solely contain a numeric value (the string representation of one) it results in an error (to be exact a NumberFormatException)

In short, anywhere where your code could obtain a value that you aren't in full control over use a try/catch block and write code that plans for every eventuality, always think to yourself "will this cause my program to crash" if the answer is even the remotest yes then use try/catch and plan for every eventuality

Hope this helps

Daniel