diff --git a/src/core/DirectoryMonitor.java b/src/core/DirectoryMonitor.java
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+package core;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.text.DateFormat;
+import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.function.Consumer;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
+
+import dataStructures.MonitoredFile;
+
+public class DirectoryMonitor
+{
+	private void Log(String s) { System.out.println("[Log] " + s); }
+	private void Warn(String s) { System.out.println("[Warn] " + s); }
+	private void Error(String s) { System.out.println("[ERROR] " + s); }
+	
+	private String directory; 
+	private ArrayList<MonitoredFile> last;
+	
+	// Constructs a new file monitor and logs initialization
+	public DirectoryMonitor(String directory)
+	{
+		Log("Reading initial file set in: " + directory.toString());
+		
+		this.directory = directory;
+		this.last = Scrape();
+		
+		Print(last);
+	}
+	
+	// Check when a file was last modified by path
+	private Long LastModified(Path path)
+	{
+		File file = new File(path.toString());
+		
+		if(file.exists())
+		{
+			return file.lastModified();
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			Error("File does not exist.");
+			return null;
+		}
+	}
+	
+	// Scrape the target directory for all files and store them as custom objects in the list
+	private ArrayList<MonitoredFile> Scrape()
+	{
+		ArrayList<MonitoredFile> files = new ArrayList<MonitoredFile>();
+		
+		try
+		{
+			try (Stream<Path> paths = Files.walk(Paths.get(directory)))
+			{
+				paths.filter(Files::isRegularFile).forEach((path)->
+				{ 
+					files.add(new MonitoredFile(path, LastModified(path)));
+				});
+			}
+		}
+		catch(Exception e)
+		{
+			Error(e.getMessage());
+		}
+		
+		return files;
+	}
+	
+	// Update function - the first callback is called if a new item is added to the directory,
+	// second is called if an item is updated, and third is called if an item is removed.
+	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+	public void Update(Consumer<? super MonitoredFile> onAdd, Consumer<? super MonitoredFile> onUpdate, Consumer<? super MonitoredFile> onDelete)
+	{
+		// Unparsed
+		ArrayList<MonitoredFile> active = Scrape();
+		ArrayList<MonitoredFile> curr = (ArrayList<MonitoredFile>)active.clone(); 
+		ArrayList<MonitoredFile> prev = (ArrayList<MonitoredFile>)last.clone();
+		
+		// Parsed
+		ArrayList<MonitoredFile> added = new ArrayList<MonitoredFile>();
+		ArrayList<MonitoredFile> updated = new ArrayList<MonitoredFile>();
+		ArrayList<MonitoredFile> deleted = new ArrayList<MonitoredFile>();
+		ArrayList<MonitoredFile> existing = new ArrayList<MonitoredFile>();
+		
+		// Iterate over everything
+		for(int i = 0; i < active.size(); ++i)
+		{
+			// If we contain the previous, remove it.
+			if(prev.contains(active.get(i)))
+			{
+				MonitoredFile item = active.get(i);
+				
+				prev.remove(item);
+				curr.remove(item);
+				existing.add(item);
+			}
+			
+			// Check all other cases
+			for(int j = 0; j < prev.size(); ++j)
+			{
+				MonitoredFile l1 = active.get(i);
+				MonitoredFile l2 = prev.get(j);
+						
+				// Check if item is updated.
+				if(l1.path.toString().equals(l2.path.toString()))
+				{
+					updated.add(l1);
+					prev.remove(l2);
+					curr.remove(l1);
+					onUpdate.accept(l2);
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	
+		// Anything that wasn't removed from prev has been removed.
+		for(int j = 0; j < prev.size(); ++j)
+		{
+			MonitoredFile item = prev.get(j);
+			
+			deleted.add(item);
+			onDelete.accept(item);
+		}
+		
+		prev.clear();
+		
+		// Add all the remaining things in the current directory as added items.
+		for(int i = 0; i < curr.size(); ++i)
+		{
+			MonitoredFile item = curr.get(i);
+			
+			added.add(item);
+			onAdd.accept(item);
+		}
+		
+		// Rebuild local state
+		last.clear();
+		last.addAll(existing);
+		last.addAll(added);
+		last.addAll(updated);
+		Collections.sort(last);
+		
+		if(last.size() == 0)
+			Warn("There's nothing at all in a FileMonitor's target folder!");
+	}
+	
+	// Prints out an arraylist of items from a directory by path
+	private void Print(ArrayList<MonitoredFile> toPrint)
+	{
+		for(int i = 0; i < toPrint.size(); ++i)
+			Log(toPrint.get(i).path.toString());
+	}
+}
diff --git a/src/dataStructures/MonitoredFile.java b/src/dataStructures/MonitoredFile.java
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+package dataStructures;
+
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+
+public class MonitoredFile implements Comparable<Object>
+{
+	public final Path path;
+	public final Long lastModified;
+	
+	public MonitoredFile(Path path, Long lastModified)
+	{
+		this.path = path;
+		this.lastModified = lastModified;
+	}
+	
+	// Override equals operator - used for .contains(...) on list items
+	@Override
+	public boolean equals(Object other)
+	{
+		if(this.compareTo(other) == 0)
+			return true;
+		
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	// Comparison
+	public int compareTo(Object other)
+	{
+		int strCmp = path.getFileName().toString().compareTo(((MonitoredFile)other).path.getFileName().toString());
+		
+		if(strCmp == 0)
+			return lastModified.compareTo(((MonitoredFile)other).lastModified);
+		
+		return strCmp;
+	}
+}