Summary: Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization

You have gained essential knowledge and practical skills in various aspects of file handling and data manipulation. You learned how to efficiently read from and write to text and XML files, making data exchange and storage more flexible. You also explored file compression and decompression. Understanding text encoding and decoding is crucial for working with data across different formats. Additionally, you learned how to serialize and deserialize object graphs in JSON and XML, allowing you to recreate object structures from serialized data. This comprehensive skill set prepares you to handle files and data effectively across diverse programming scenarios.

Let’s recap the key takeaways:

• Read from and write to text files.

• Read from and write to XML files.

• Compress and decompress files.

• Encode and decode text.

• Serialize an object graph into JSON and XML.

• Deserialize an object graph from JSON and XML.