// I often encounter a student using GUI programming environment who is
// unable to find the directory in which his program is executing. This
// makes doing file I/O a bit more complicated. To simplify things,
// here's code to simply ask the program where it is.

public class WhereAmI {

  public static String currentWorkingDirectory() {
    return System.getProperty("user.dir");
  } // currentWorkingDirectory

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println(currentWorkingDirectory());
  } // main()

} // class WhereAmI