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Monday's Programming Question
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:00:00 +0300
I had a couple of conversations around literals last week. Which leads me to this week's programming question. In Java, I can use a hexadecimal literal to assign a value...
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Answer to Monday's Programming Question
Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:00:00 +0300
Monday's question was to modify the code point program to use a JOptionPane. It needed to show the Unicode characters for the code point range of U+3041 to U+309F. The...
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Java Term of the Week: Variable
Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:00:00 +0300
Seeing as I had a look at declaring variables this week, it seems a good idea to re-enforce what they are. A variable is a container that holds values that...
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Poll: How Excited Are You About JavaFX?
Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:30:00 +0300
I noticed yesterday that the JavaFX website has now got the official release date posted. JavaFX is due to be released on December 4th - a couple of days later...
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Back to Basics: Declaring Variables
Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:00:00 +0300
Next in the back to basics range of articles looking at the fundamental building blocks of Java is the humble variable. It's a look at what variables are and how...
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Monday's Programming Question
Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:00:00 +0300
This week is a continuation of the code point program created from last Monday's question. As I mentioned in the answer, the System.out.print method uses the default character encoding of...
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Answer to Monday's Code Point Question
Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:00:00 +0300
The code point programming question was to write a Java program that took a range of Unicode code points and displayed the characters they represent to the user. The range...
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Java Term of the Week: Strongly Typed
Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:00:00 +0300
Java is a strongly typed programming language because every variable must be declared with a data type before it can be used. Once it is declared, the data type of...
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Netbeans 6.5 Released
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:00:00 +0300
In case you missed it, the latest version of Netbeans is now available for download. The full feature list highlights improvements across a host of programming languages. If you want...
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Monday's Programming Question
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:00:00 +0300
This week I thought it might be interesting to put Unicode code points into action. Every character defined in the Unicode standard is given a specific number called a...
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