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## Introduction ## While **Functional Interfaces** and **Function Types** are used to declare the types of a function, **Function Literals** create the actual implementations of these types. In this tutorial, we will learn what Kotlin **Function Literals** are and how to create them. ## Goals ## At the end of …

## Introduction ## Whenever I want to express method parameters, return type or variables as a *method* in Java, I often find myself having to do a bit of work: 1. If I cannot remember which pre-made **functional interface** to use, then I will have to look up the list …

## Introduction ## When collecting a stream, the `groupingBy()` Collector(`java.util.stream.Collector`) can be used to put data into different groups based on specified conditions. `groupingBy()` is a little bit more complicated to use than [partitioningBy()](https://www.daniweb.com/posts/jump/2280662) because the key can be of any type, whereas with `partitioningBy()`, the keys must be of …

## Introduction ## Before Java 8, methods had to throw an exception or return `null`, with neither of which approaches were perfect. Optional, OptionalInt, OptionalLong, and OptionalDouble were introduced in Java 8 to represent values that might possibly be `null`. Optionals have two internal states, **empty** or **present**. An Optional …

## Introduction ## `partitioningBy()` collects a `Stream` into a `Map`. In this tutorial, we will compare the two different `partitioningBy` methods and learn how to use them. ## Goals ## At the end of this tutorial, you would have learned: 1. What `Collectors.partitioningBy` does and how to use it. ## …

Ok so the last couple of days i have been atempting to make a voxel engine for a cube world, i am intermediate in c++ and beyond the basics in opengl, i have a basic thought as to how the engine will fucnction. the Engine: - programmed in c++ - …

I created an app to view and tag all of my home movie files. To play back the video I embedded Windows Media Player in the form. It also allows me to add comments to videos and search based on the comments. While it is functional, I would prefer to …

I'm having trouble identifying the functional dependencies! relation schema is SCHEDULE = {course, teacher, time, room} What are the functional dependencies for: 1. The same course is always taught by the same teacher? 2. Different courses can never be taught in the same room at the same time? 3. The …