August 2014
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
13h 50m
English
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Collections is the most heavily used API in Java. What would you do without collections? Nearly every Java application makes and processes collections. Collections are fundamental to many programming tasks: they let you group and process data. To illustrate collections in action, imagine you want to create a collection of dishes to represent a menu and then iterate through it to sum the calories of each dish. You may want to process the collection to select only low-calorie dishes for a special healthy menu. But despite collections being necessary for almost any Java application, ...