By using Java’s built-in file classes, along with recursion, it turns out to be pretty easy to implement the requirements that I came up! It’s fairly simple to copy a set of files nested inside a directory structure into a new flat directory.

Remember, while you probably aren’t burning your own CDs or cassettes nowadays, there are reasons why the concepts demonstrated here are still relevant. The computer science techniques in this small set of code (such as recursion, threading, and file manipulation) are basic skills all Java programmers should know.