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Learn how to use pattern-matching features in your Java programs, including pattern matching with switch statements, when clauses, sealed classes, and a preview of primitive type pattern matching in ...

Currently also reading the book Head First - Design Patterns. This books assumes prior knowledge about object-oriented programming (OOP), and recommends reading a book about this topic. Looked around ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

Sometimes a spoon is just a spoon. By Joshua David Stein Joshua David Stein’s children’s books include “Lunch From Home,” “What’s Cooking?” and “Solitary Animals.” The spoon’s best-known role in the ...

Take your coding to the next level by learning advanced programming with generics. Here's how to use generic methods with type inference, type parameters, and wildcards in your Java programs. Generics ...

Abstract: Code generation benchmarks such as HumanEval are widely adopted to evaluate LLMs’ capabilities. However, after consolidating the latest 24 benchmarks, we noticed three significant imbalances ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

The course consists of 2 distinct parts: Introduction to System Architecture, and Introduction to Object Oriented Analysis & Design (OOAD). The system architecture portion provides a survey of ...

Abstract: To support novice students in learning Java programming, we have implemented the web-based Java Programming Learning Assistant System (JPLAS). In JPLAS, one of the implemented exercise ...