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Threads, in general, allow a program to behave more efficiently by passing off parts of a process so that multiple items can be done simultaneously. With the advent and growth of multi-core processors which allow for many natural threads, this has been increased. Why do we need threads? Well simply put, there is always something…

Now that we’ve added JComboBoxes, and Buttons to Create New and Save Data, lets work on loading data from our data source. We have our existing Student Data Access Class which we can use. Now we need to focus on getting a list of students, and displaying them. To do so, we’re going to start…

So our first example will be to build a simple GUI interface that launches from within the main. This isn’t a standard procedure, but is good to get a start into see how components work. Typically we’d have a separate class which would call and load the window. We’re going to start with a basic…

Audio requires use of a plugin, luckily there are several, which should make it easier. We are going to start by creating a basic Flutter app, the way we’ve done before. Then removing the comments. We’re going to play a small clip each time someone clicks on the increment button. Installing the Plugin Next we…

Related Java Classes can be grouped together in something called a package. A lot of people like to think of this as being like a folder in your file system, where you group related files. The difference is, that it is your related Java Classes. We’ve already looked at UML packages, and Java packages are…

Quickly finding and sorting data is a very important part for many developers as it allows users to search and find data quickly.  While many languages have built in sorting algorithms, sometimes we only have a template that we need to finish. This is especially true for complex data types which aren’t as easy to…

As a programmer, you only have to worry about the top element in the queue and the last element. This is because you will enqueue, or add items to the end of the queue, and dequeue, or remove the first, or top, element of the queue. When you add an item to the queue, you…

Since arrays must be made of a contiguous section of memory, large arrays become harder to allocate memory for them, especially as the application becomes more complex. Therefore, developers will often look to using something like a linked list. A linked list incorporates a custom data type. One of the data types which makes it…