Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The key difference between a float and double in Java is that a double can represent much larger ...

In a previous blog post, I looked at the subtle handling required to handle double with BigDecimal. As I discussed in that post, using the BigDecimal(double) constructor rarely does what one would ...

Classes and objects in Java must be initialized before they are used. You’ve previously learned that class fields are initialized to default values when classes are loaded, and that objects are ...