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Java dev learning Python: what concepts do I need to wrap my head around?
Background: I've run through a few tutorials and written some small projects. All is going well enough using Google and StackOverflow.
Several times in the last few days I've found myself wondering "...
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Is the algorithm more important than the programming language?
During the current (2013) Google Code Jam contest, there was a problem that took C++ and Java people 200+ lines of code as compared to Python people that solved the same problem only using 40 lines of ...
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Programming language usage at Google [closed]
I have heard Google uses Python, Java and C++. But what I don't know is how is each of those programming language is used. I mean what is Python, Java and C++ is used for at Google. Why would they ...
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Is programming in Python faster than in C, C++ or Java? [closed]
There's a widespread belief among programmers that the more dynamic and loosely typed the language, the more productive the programmer will be in it. Guido van Rossum wrote about programming ...
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Why there is no power operator in Java / C++?
While there is such operator - ** in Python, I was wondering why Java and C++ don't have one too.
It is easy to make one for classes you define in C++ with operator overloading (and I believe such ...
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How to solve the problem of nested comments
It appears in not just one language that comments can't be nested. Do you have a good solution for this problem? One workaround in C/C++ and Java is to only use the single-line comment but it becomes ...
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Python productivity VS Java Productivity
Over on SO I came across a question regarding which platform, Java or Python is best for developing on Google AppEngine. Many people were boasting of the increased productivity gained from using ...
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Best practices in comment writing and documentation
Commenting nowadays is easier than ever. In Java, there are some nice techniques for linking comments to classes, and Java IDEs are good at making comment shells for you. Languages like Clojure even ...
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How do non-RAII languages free resources during stack unwinding?
C++ features deterministic order of calling destructors up the call stack until the exception is handled somewhere.
To my knowledge, neither Java nor (object oriented) Python provide this. In those ...
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Differences between "Java OOP" and "Pythonic OOP"? [closed]
I started with ActionScript 2.0 and then went on with Java. I have learned, or at least used, a bunch of languages since then, including Python (probably my favorite).
I'm afraid that my style of ...
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Why are inheritance and polymorphism so widely used?
The more I learn about different programming paradigms, such as functional programming, the more I begin to question the wisdom of OOP concepts like inheritance and polymorphism. I first learned ...
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Why is Python slower than Java but faster than PHP [closed]
I have many times seen various benchmarks that show how a bunch of languages perform on a given task.
These benchmarks always reveal that Python is slower than Java, and faster than PHP, and I wonder ...
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How to implement float hashing with approximate equality
Let's say we have the following Python class (the problem exists in Java just the same with equals and hashCode)
class Temperature:
def __init__(self, degrees):
self.degrees = degrees
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How is the JVM and Java's WORA different from other high level languages?
In the Java world, we often talk about the JVM, and when Java was new it had the supposedly killer feature of "Write Once, Run Anywhere."
From the way people talk and write, this seems different from ...
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Do I have to learn html and javascript to create web applications? [closed]
I am an experienced Java programmer, and I want to create a complex web application requiring dynamic pages, drawings, etc (take SO as an example). Do I have to learn javascript/html in order to ...
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