Java Workshop

This repository contains theory, examples, and practice problems covering certain Java features from Java 8 to Java 17.

🎯 Goals

• Understand why modern Java features exist
• Learn clean, idiomatic Java
• Move from imperative → declarative → type-safe Java
• Practice problems
• Students are encouraged to submit their own solutions via Pull Requests.

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📚 Topics Covered

Java 8

• Interfaces (default & static methods)
• Lambda Expressions
• Functional Interfaces
• Stream API
• Predicates
• Optional

Java 14–17

• Switch Expressions
• Records
• Sealed Classes
• Pattern Matching for instanceof
• Text Blocks

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🧪 Practice Problems

The workshop includes problems for each topic, designed to test:

• Conceptual understanding
• Correct usage
• Clean coding practices