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Immutable objects in Java

I just finished studying immutable objects and their advantages so I thought I'd create one of my own. Here is my employee class that extends a person class. It is not mutable since I have getters to ...

java beginner immutable

asked by Ishan Soni 22 votes answered by rolfl 30 votes

Wait, is this... LINQ?

Context I'm working on a little project that consists in a series of Microsoft Excel add-ins (.xlam). The code being submitted for review here, is located in the Reflection project: Feel free to ...

data-structures linq vba delegates

asked by Mat's Mug 16 votes answered by RubberDuck 5 votes

Is wrapping exceptions good practice?

I have recently been refactoring some code in an effort to improve the exception handling, particularly to aid in improving the level of information given to developers during development. However I ...

c# design-patterns exception-handling error-handling

asked by Nick Williams 14 votes answered by Jeroen Vannevel 15 votes

Self-made Linked List

I was tasked by my teacher with making a linked list by myself, so I could understand the concept better. Here is the MyLinkedList class: public class MyLinkedList<T>{ private Node<T> ...

java beginner linked-list

asked by Attila Herbert 13 votes answered by rolfl 14 votes

Small password generator app with GUI

This is a GUI-based random password generator, which supports internationalization. It consists of 6 small classes: Main classes: Application - entry point GUI - self-explanatory PassGen - class ...

java swing

asked by SingularityFX 12 votes answered by Pimgd 10 votes

LW, MTD, STD, YTD Sales... all in line and looking pretty

That's Last Week, Month-to-Date, Season-to-Date, and Year-to-Date sales. I have a table-valued function for each one, that takes a date and returns all CalendarDate values for the interesting time ...

performance sql-server t-sql join

asked by Mat's Mug 11 votes answered by rolfl 5 votes

Snake game in C++

This is my version of the Snake game written in C++. How could it be improved and what general advice would be useful for future projects? #include <iostream> #include <conio.h> void ...

c++ beginner game

asked by TheKittyKat 11 votes answered by Yann4 17 votes

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

Consuming an ASP.NET Web API call in an MVC controller

In a new project I am creating for my work, I am creating a fairly large ASP.NET web API. The API will be in a separate Visual Studio solution that also contains all of my business logic, database ...

c# performance asp.net web-services

asked by davidisawesome 11 votes answered by Peter Kiss 3 votes

Implementation of Heap Sort

Is this the correct implementation of Heap Sort using Java? How can it be improved further? import java.util.Arrays; public class HeapSort { public static int heapSize; public static int ...

java sorting heap

asked by n1234 5 votes answered by 200_success 6 votes

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War Game GenServer Implementation

One of the Etudes for Elixir exercises is to create a War game that uses the spawn, send, and receive primitives, but I went all out and made it an OTP GenServer. I run the game in iex with: {:ok, ...

elixir

asked by Havvy 3 votes

Multithreading in a 2D Mining Game

I have implemented some basic multithreading in my 2D mining game that I asked about in a previous question. The first part is working out great (creating the initial object instances in the ...

game multithreading objective-c sprite-kit grand-central-dispatch

asked by bazola 5 votes

Ruby Koans: Greed Game

I am learning Ruby with Ruby Koans. This is my code for the final assignment: the Greed Game. here are the rules: Playing Greed Greed is a dice game played among 2 or more players, using 5 ...

ruby programming-challenge random

asked by jc newb 1 vote