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Deep Dive into Java Generics

As a Java engineer, we may have worked with Generics at some point without understanding fully how they work. Generics was introduced in JDK 5.0 to reduce bugs mostly related to type checking. In the next sections, we would dive into the need for Generics and typical scenarios in demonstrating…

Spring Boot

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Spring Boot

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Jul 11

Understanding the Immutability of Strings in Java

Everybody talks about how Strings are immutable and how this decision to make Strings immutable has become one of the best things to happen to Java Strings. In this article, we will understand what immutability is and why Java as a programming language decided to make Strings immutable. What is a Mutable Object? From Merriam-Webster…

Java

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Java

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May 13, 2021

Iterable vs Iterator in Java

Iterable and Iterator are both interfaces in Java that sound alike and are often confusing to Java developers. Let’s start by defining the word “iteration”. From Merriam-Webster dictionary, an iteration is the repetition of a sequence of computer instructions a specified number of times or until a condition is met. …

Java

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Java

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Apr 17, 2021

How to setup Spring Boot container to handle HTTPS requests

According to Wikipedia, Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It is used for secure communication over a computer network. In HTTPS, the communication protocol is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS). …

Spring Boot

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Spring Boot

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May 13, 2020

I didn’t know how to solve this Leetcode Problem!😭😭😭

This is a medium Leetcode 402 question where you are asked to remove k digits from a number to make that number the smallest possible number. See problem description below: The question is quite understandable and straight forward but the issue is with knowing the numbers to remove. At first…

Leetcode

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Leetcode

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May 12, 2020

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Solutions to Leetcode’s Single Element in a Sorted Array

This is a medium Leetcode 543 question. You are given an array of integers of which all elements in the array appear twice except one. The question is to get the one that does not have any duplicate (i.e appeared just once). See problem description below: NOTE: The solution should…

Leetcode

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Leetcode

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May 12, 2020

Solution to Leetcode’s Flood Fill

This is an easy Leetcode 733 problem. See problem description below: CONCEPT To get a clearer picture of what the question wants us to do, first, it will be better to break the multidimensional array elements to form a square-like structure e.g the picture below shows the break down of [[1,1,1]…

Leetcode

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Leetcode

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May 10, 2020

Solution to Leetcode’s Remove Duplicates From Sorted Array II

I must confess this question took me a while as a beginner. This is a medium Leetcode 80 question. This is similar to Leetcode 26 where you are simply asked to remove all duplicates in an array. The tweak in Leetcode 80 is that the highest duplicate a number in…

Leetcode

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Leetcode

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May 9, 2020

Solution to Leetcode’s Valid Perfect Square

This is an easy Leetcode problem 367. The question gives a number and you are to write a function to determine if it is a perfect square. See the image below for description. According to wikipedia, a perfect square is the product of a number with itself. in this context…

Leetcode

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Leetcode

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Apr 29, 2020

INTRODUCTION TO REGEX EXPRESSIONS FOR JAVA DEVELOPERS

According to oracle doc, Regular Expressions popularly called Regex are a way to describe a set of strings based on common characteristics shared by each string in the set. They can be used to search, edit, or manipulate text and data. In layman’s term, Regular Expressions are ways that help…

Regex

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Regex

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