SkillsCast
Java Oddities
SkillsCast
About the Speaker
Topics covered include:
- Array declarations & initializers
- Covariant arrays: type exceptions in a statically typed language
- Dangerous method overloading
- Method overloading for default values
- Conditional expression type resolution
- Generics: < F,U,N >
- Wildcards: < ? >
We'll conclude by describing a project at the university of Cambridge that aims to provide tools for language designers to help them improve programming languages.
Find out more about Raoul via his website!
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Java Oddities
Raoul-Gabriel Urma
Raoul-Gabriel Urma is CEO and co-founder of Cambridge Spark, a leading learning community for data scientists and developers in the UK, as well as chairman and co-founder of Cambridge Coding Academy, a growing community of young coders and pre-university students. He is author of 'Java 8 in Action: Lambdas, Streams, and functional-style programming'.