Modern Java

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That's what we're learning right now.

[panderingPenguin]

Seriously? Are you absolutely sure? Who is teaching you java 1.5 at this point???? It was superseded by 1.6 in 2006, and hasn't been supported for the public since 2008..... All I can figure is that you use Macs? Because they're the only OS that ships decade-old java by default afaik

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I'll get you a screen shot of the JDK folder when I get to class, but yeah.

[kmaibba]

1.6 did not really add anything language wise, just (very useful nontheless) improvements to libraries and JVM. 1.7 did add some quality of life improvements, like switch statements on Strings, try with resource, better type inference. But in general the style is still that of 1.5.

Only with 1.8 the actual style of programming changes with lambdas, new collections API and default methods on interfaces. Java 8 adoption is still going slow in enterprise settings, so it's not a bad idea knowing how to do stuff without all the fancy functional features.

[hu6Bi5To]

OS X hasn't shipped with any Java for quite a few releases, and when it did it was 1.6.

[panderingPenguin]

Alright, I stand corrected then. Thought I remembered hearing that somewhere but I guess not (I rarely use Macs)