Have you ever wonder how bit masking work (or what is that?) and why do you need it? Or why a tree structure exists? (or what is breadth first vs depth first), or what are game trees? We put our Computer Science hat and go “depth first” in some fundamental compsci concepts, and, more importantly their utility, ending with Game trees (and they are not only used for games)!

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• Steve Yegge Blog (Get that job at Google!)
• Jeff Atwood Blog(Why Can’t Programmers.. Program?)
• Bitwise Operations in Java
• Binary Trees
• Tree Parsing and Evaluation example
• Game Trees

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You remember recursion right? that ugly, confusing thing they made you do either on CS-300, or at job interviews. Have you ever wondered how to make it safe and right? and why do we really use recursion? In this episode we go into proper recursion programming (and lose the fear of making it wrong), and understand why stacks get filled with it, and what problems do they really solve (answer, not many).
In addition we talk about the nature of Double objects, vs double the primitive (And why it is so hard to do == comparisons in doubles), plus some little known things about Strings (like interning). In all it has a little bit for everyone, so take a listen!

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• Why Programmers need math (or at least google it)
  
• Real algorithm for average rating(this is just very interesting, and make us a little less wrong
• How doubles are represented
  
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Big shout-out to everyone I met at JavaOne (including some avid podcast listeners!). Thanks for listening and for a great time down at JavaOne! Don’t worry, we will be sharing all the stuff I learned on new episodes of the podcast.

It is also our Birthday (We have been airing episodes for a year!)! Happy to celebrate with everyone a year of the podcast (and if you want to celebrate it, treat me a beer! 🙂 ).

With this episode we wrap the concept of generics and bounds (super / extends) and talk about type erasure (and compiler warnings that goes ‘Hm, dunno what you’re doing but I can’t make sure it’s right’

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Beer of the Episode: Still hung-over from JavaOne’s big concert (Go Pearl Jam!)

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Oracle Java Generics (what we’re following on this podcast) http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/generics/
Dr Venkat presentation on Generics (Click on the “Media” at the right side for the presentation, a great presentation
Agile Developer (Dr Venkat’s Must-check website and blog
Angelika Langer FAQ on Generics

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Hi there! Finally back on a (hopefully) standard schedule. I have been moving a house with three kids, two cats, one wife, one dog, and one grandma (they are heavy!, just kidding!) and just found the box with the podcast equipment!

we hit the ground running with Generics. What are the benefits (and potential pitfalls) of Generics? Why do we even need them at all? The syntax looks pretty confusing, but with some Jedi Mind tricks one can actually start seeing how they work. If you use Generics (Almost everyone does :)) you should take a listen!

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