🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello everyone,

I'm new to java and so far I like it a lot!  I usually program in C++ so it
wasn't much of a stretch to switch over.  However, the hardest thing that I
have had to do so far is simply get some text from a user in a console
application.  For instance, if I wanted to just get floats from the user to
calculate some statistical number.  How could I get the float value.  In C++
you could just say something like cin>>floatValue;    I know it's not that
simple in java, because I've gotten it to work, but I think that there has
to be an easier way.  I read in a string using a BufferedReader buf = new
BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));  file = buf.readline();
Is there a simple way to get native types and how do I know the best time to
use which stream?

Thanks,
Trey Ethridge