In object-oriented languages, a nested or inner class is a class that’s completely declared within another class. This allows us to combine classes that are logically bound together, to increase encapsulation, for more concise and maintainable code. Here’s a quick, non-deep-dive overview of the 4 types of nested classes.
In my previous articles about functional programming, I’ve shown how to incorporate a more functional style into our Java code. But I’ve omitted a crucial topic: how to deal with exceptions.
Almost every developer knows the phrase “premature optimization is the root of all evil”, coined by Donald Knuth in 1974. But how are we supposed to know what is worthy of being optimized?
Exception handling is a mechanism used to handle disruptive, abnormal conditions to the control flow of our programs. The concept can be traced back to the origins of Lisp and is used in many different programming languages today.
We all know String.format(...). But there are other options. Java has multiple ways of formatting, aligning, padding, and justifying Strings.