Process keyboard commands without prompting

I am 5 weeks into my first Java course with no
previous programming background. We are implementing
John Conways game "LIFE" a 2D Cellular Automata. From
the command line I read in 5 args, width, height,
cell size, delay and a random seed value. I have the
program accepting the args and drawing the displays.
While the program is running the user should be able
to type in commands such as quit, step which one
steps the display etc. Everything I have done so far,
tried or read such as System.in or .next or hasNext
prompts the user for input. How do I read keyboard
commands without prompting the user? Look at the KeyListener interface. You need to know how to use Interfaces, and how to implement listeners for your swing components. With a KeyListener, you can detect when keys are typed. This is event driven. so you perform actions on the key being pressed and released. the keyTyped() method is probably what you will want to use. If you are planning on using single key commands (q == quit, s == step), this will be pretty easy to use. If you want the user to spell out the command, you may want to detect a key stroke, then open a text input field for the user to type the full command.
Please don't
laugh at my ignorance. Maybe at 48 years old I'm just
too old to learn this stuff. Thanks much.Not.
Good luck.
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