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Lecture

Integer Types: Operations and Comparators

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CS-108: Practice of object-oriented programming

Les étudiants perfectionnent leurs connaissances en Java et les mettent en pratique en réalisant un projet de taille conséquente. Ils apprennent à utiliser et à mettre en œuvre les principaux types de collections (listes, ensembles, tables associatives), e ...

Description

This lecture covers integer types in Java, including operations and comparators. It explains the behavior of integer overflow and underflow, as well as how to work with integer comparators. The instructor demonstrates code examples involving Integer.MAX_VALUE, Integer.MIN_VALUE, and various sorting techniques.

Instructor

Michel Schinz

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Ontological neighbourhood

Theoretical computer science

Programming language theory: High-level programming languages

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