He nodded once. “This works. Why?”
Silence.
But Riya had just noticed something. The userRole variable wasn’t null because of bad input. It was null because the file reader was skipping the first line of their .csv user database – the header row. She fixed the BufferedReader logic, added a trim, and ran it.
Riya answered, “Because we separated concerns. TaskModel is independent of NotificationService . And we finally understood the Event Dispatch Thread.”
They walked toward the hostel, past frosted trees and streetlights haloing the snowfall. Riya realized the real lesson wasn’t Java syntax or design patterns. It was the stubborn, caffeine-fueled, 3 AM belief that the next fix is always just one logical step away .