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Trail: Essential Java Classes
Lesson: I/O: Reading and Writing (but no 'rithmetic)

## Summary

> The `java.io` package contains many classes that your programs can use to read and write data. Most of the classes implement sequential access streams. The sequential access streams can be divided into two groups: those that read and write bytes and those that read and write Unicode characters. Each sequential access stream has a speciality, such as reading from or writing to a file, filtering data as its read or written, or serializing an object.

> One class, `RandomAccessFile`, implements random input/output access to a file. An object of this type maintains a file pointer, which indicates the current location from which data will be read or to which data will be written.

> In addition to the I/O classes in `java.io`, the `java.util.zip` package contains other useful I/O classes.

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