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T h e . C o d e R a n c h . J o u r n a l - S e p t e m b e r . 2 0 1 6 . E d i t i o n

Howdy from all the CodeRanch staff, and welcome to the September edition of the CodeRanch Journal.


W h a t ' s . N e w?


Two senior staff members have reached an incredible milestone of 65.000 post and 50.000 posts. Please join the threads and congratulate them!

Not everything is about programming here on Coderanch. You are probably familiar with our Introductions Forum where you can tell something about yourself, but now we also have a Soft Skills Forum. The Soft Skills Forum is intended to be about all the skills not covered in the usual training. Have a look and start a thread!

The Trailboss wrote something bizarre about LED lights.  It turns out that the wise use of an incandescent light can save far more money than LED: "Is incandescent light still better than LED light?".

I n t e r e s t i n g . C o d e R a n c h . F o r u m . P o s t s


* Switch Case and enum

* Relationship of Comparable and Comparator interfaces in Java.

* what are literals exactly?

* Whether getters and setters are a good thing or bad

* Big O notation question


B o o k . P r o m o t i o n s



There's a book (or software) promotion just about every week at CodeRanch. Just ask a question in the appropriate forum and you're eligible to win a copy of the book.
We've got some promotions coming up. Check the book promo schedule.

Our recent book promotions and their winners can be found below:

* Go in Practice

* OCA Java SE 8 Programmer I Certification Guide

* Secrets of a JavaScript Ninja

Some upcoming ones are:

* Functional Reactive Programming - Stephen Blackheath and Anthony Jones

* The CS Detective: An Algorithmic Tale of Crime, Conspiracy, and Computation - Jeremy Kubica

B o o k . R e v i e w s


We have a dedicated forum for book reviews. Please check out the latest reviews (also available on our book review grid: Book-Review-Grid)

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