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Functional Programming with Java

Early in my career, I had a lead developer on a project who during code review, much to my chagrin, kept making me re-write what was in my opinion “perfectly good, working code”. To my lead however

Unique Collections

 Knowing that a collection is comprised of unique only items if a very useful thing indeed. It's so useful that this concept is the basis of one of the fundamental data structure: the Set. While this is not the on

Ahh, Heaps. 

Randomized Meldable Heaps

When it comes to priority queues, the binary heap is the go-to data structure when it comes to implementation, and with good reason. Binary heaps offer worst-case logarithmic complexity for all operations that i

Foreach

The "foreach" loop is a special case of the for loop, usually enacted on a linear container such as an array or a list, where for every iteration of the loop, some action is performed on a member of the container until that actio