Hi, sorry if this is an obvious question ive never written a java applet before. I'm looking to write a simple math questions program with a scanner input etc. Can you use a console via an applet? as in inbed within the website a form of console ? that the user can then input answers etc with?

An applet can write to the browser's Java console. That's useful for debugging.
There is no way for an applet to read from the console.

You're going to have to learn a little GUI to get input from a user.

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