For my current project I’m using Java 11, and since I last used with version 8, I thought that would be interesting to check the latest features and get a better feel of where the language is going.
In the previous blog post I presented an exercise I sometimes use during interviews and I thought I would do it with Java 16 latest features.
The exercise is about representing a binary tree and then implementing an algorithm that adds a unique identifier to each node.
The examples I present in the previous blog post use a functional approach to implement…
I wanted to learn more about Dotty, the new compiler that will be used for Scala 3 so I thought of using it to solve a small problem.
I decided to use an exercise I use with candidates for a Scala position as a starting point for discussion. It consists in modelling a binary tree and writing a function that acts on it.
The problem
First I ask the candidate to model a binary tree, similar to the one the figure below:
And then we work together on how to write a function that adds a unique identifier to all nodes of…
Benoit Pasquereau
Tech lead and back-end dev
