Don't forget to import the HashMap class and the Map interface. Think about what kind of values your dictionary needs to hold. We need to create our dictionary using a HashMap and then we will need to set it up to hold both English and German string values. I will leave links to my GitHub repo and other important resources below. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how I created an English to German dictionary in Java. In Java, we are able to store information with something called 'key: value pairs' and these key-value pairs are directly reminiscent of a dictionary.
The meaning of that word or the definition is our 'value'. Our word that we want to know the meaning of is our 'key' in Java. Woah, did I lose you? Think about it like this. We are able to access the stored values of specific keys within our Java dictionaries. So how do dictionaries function in Java? The exact same way actually. When you think about everyday (book-like) dictionaries, what comes to mind? How do you use normal dictionaries when looking stuff up? Dictionaries allow us to look up the meanings of words that we may or may not fully understand. Any non-null object can be used as a key and as a value." Given a Dictionary and a key, the associated element can be looked up. In any one Dictionary object, every key is associated with at most one value. "The Dictionary class is the abstract parent of any class, such as Hashtable, which maps keys to values.
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