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Getting the hang of coding might be confusing for a complete beginner. There are dozens and dozens of Java books on Amazon — it’s so easy to get lost! How about a little piece of advice, based on experience of the other Java learners? If you still haven’t put together your reading list for 2021 ...

What are the typical responsibilities of a Java developer? After all, you need to understand what you are getting yourself into and what you will end up doing, right? Today I would like to talk about ten vital tasks that a Java developer performs...

Hi everyone! CodeGym team is back with a few updates that we believe will make your learning experience even more pleasant...

It’s good to familiarize yourself with the ceil function in mathematics before we move to the ceil method in Java. What is the ceil function in mathematics? “A ceil function converts a decimal number to the immediate largest integer.” If the number passed is already a whole number or an integer, then the same number...

One of the distinctive features of software development as a professional career is the need to study all the time. Programmers like no one else are pressured to keep up with new technologies and learn new frameworks, tools and coding...

This story is about a game developer named Yuri Sharoiko. Before entering IT, he worked in law enforcement and provided security for a bank. He soon became bored by this work and recalled a hobby from his younger days: computer...

What is toUpperCase() Method? “The toUpperCase() method in Java returns the input content in ALL CAPS.” Java provides you with a simple, easy to use and quite helpful function to convert any text, characters or strings in ALL-CAPS. There are a lot of times...

Hi everyone! Today we’ve released the new version of our plugin, and here’s a piece of helpful information about it. If you use IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 there might be some issues with updating our plugin. We advise you to open the “Downloads” tab in your profile, click on “Download the IntelliJ IDEA plugin”...

What is a “byte”? 8 bits (bit is the smallest unit of data containing at most 2 logical states, normally 0 and 1) combine to make a single unit of addressable memory, called a “Byte”. Here’s a theoretical representation of what a byte normally looks like...

Being one of the largest online Java programming courses with over 0.5 mln registered users, we at CodeGym are dedicated to helping all our students to get the maximum benefit out of learning on our platform. And even though the CodeGym course was designed to be as engaging and fun...

Hi, guys and gals! Without understanding the basic concepts, it is quite difficult to delve into frameworks and approaches to building functionality. So today we will talk about one such concept — AOP, aka aspect-oriented programming. This topic isn't easy and is rarely used directly, but many...

As the technology industry is racing forward and requires increasingly larger numbers of qualified software developers, this profession also gets more accessible for everyone who wants to learn programming and enjoy the benefits...