In response to my recent blog posting Immutable Java Objects , Matt brought up a good point of discussion related to making Java classes truly immutable by declaring them as Topics Spotlight ...

You might know that Java passes by value, but it helps to understand why. Here's what happens when you pass mutable and immutable object references in Java.

Java is an object-oriented programming language. As it is an object-oriented programming language, it's all methods and mechanism revolves around the objects. One object-based concept is mutable and ...

Mutability and immutability are properties of certain classes of object. For example, these are immutable—once created they cannot be changed: numeric types (int and float) Booleans; strings; tuples; ...

Problemset 0: Turtle Graphics -- Intro to Java. Problemset 1: Tweet -- test-first programming. Problemset 2: Poetic Walks -- Design and implement mutable abstract data types. Problemset 3: Expressivo ...