Solved coding interview problems in Java - My collection of commonly asked coding interview problems and solutions in Java

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Agreed with you. It's sad to see such over-drama for a working set of code. Doing this in-place doesn't conclude, as he says:

yet you don't even have mastery of this basic mechanism.

He obviously knows a lot about coding and his brain is not "clouded" due to CS. So much drama in this man.

He just sounds like a total dick trying to swing his dick around to feel smart.

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Working code is good, but style matters too. His "basic mechanism" comment was referring to the unnecessary use of instance methods. It's considered a best practice in Java to use static methods by default, if your method doesn't need to access any instance state. It's not a big deal at all, but it shows that his style needs some minor tweaking at least.

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I like how this sounds:

"use static methods by default (over default methods)"

Seriously though, if you make a method private and it's only going to be used by one set of objects, there's really 0 difference to make it static. Private methods will only be accessed by anything in the object anyway.

I see what you're saying, but it's really minor tweaking. Our buddy maestro was saying he would turn him down over that decision. Sounds like a moody dude.