I originally conceived this course as how to take material culture from one world and present it in another world. In curating culture class, we are curating a exhibition for the Fralin Museum. The ...

For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...

Abstract: This paper considers automatic inference of invariants in objects with variable structure. We say for an object that it has variable structure if a part of its logical memory space is on the ...

Shrinivas Kulkarni The Indian-American astronomer has won the 2024 Shaw Prize in Astronomy. (Courtesy: Chris S Flynn Photography/CC BY-SA 3.0) Shrinivas Kulkarni has won the 2024 Shaw Prize in ...

Java's default constructor allows developers to create instances of classes when no other constructors are explicitly defined. The default constructor in Java takes no arguments -- it simply ...

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Copying objects is a common Java programming operation that has one serious trap. Here's how to avoid copying from an object reference and only copy the instance and values you want. Copying objects ...

The ability to see the results of at least the toString() of a variable in both the VARIABLES and WATCH sections of the debugger. I just recently switched to using VSCode for my Java debugging (from ...