Is it good to catch a more general type of Exception?

Question

If we are to catch specific forms of IOException, or any other kind as a matter of fact, and we only try and catch a couple (and define definitive outputs for t

Answer 1

Generally, you only want to catch and handle exceptions you can do something with at a low level. Then at a higher level, catch any unhandled exceptions system wide, so you can record errors that occurred.