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Lecture

Comparing Objects: Comparable vs Comparator

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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 the concepts of Comparable and Comparator interfaces in Java, explaining how classes implement these interfaces to enable object comparison. The instructor demonstrates the implementation of these interfaces in IntelliJ IDEA, showing examples of comparing objects of different types and how to define custom comparison logic.

Instructor

Michel Schinz

Official source

Ontological neighbourhood

Theoretical computer science

Programming language theory: High-level programming languages

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