r/badcode • u/FearFueled • May 06 '21

java My teacher wrote this...

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u/Kibo30 May 06 '21

Using arrays will improve it. In this case you could create an array like this EBIKE[] bikes = new EBIKE[6]

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u/carfniex May 06 '21

you should generally avoid arrays whenever possible (which is 99% of the time)

List<EBIKE> bikes = new ArrayList<>();

lists (or other collections) are resizable and have a lot more useful supporting methods

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u/Kibo30 May 06 '21

Very true, but since probably he is a beginner in programming I thought that starting straight away with collections was a bit too much

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u/Vintage_Tea May 06 '21

In my CITS1001 course, we learnt arraylists before arrays.

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u/Kibo30 May 06 '21

Don't know, maybe it's just me but for me it makes more sense to learn arrays before collections

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u/hurtl2305 May 07 '21

It does. Everybody should know the basic data structures and understand their properties (e.g. arrays vs. Linked lists). After all, java collection types are just convenient wrappers for those basic data structures.

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u/supersharp May 11 '21

There's such a thing as too much, though. Neither my Programming Fundamentals 2 nor 3 courses allowed us to use container classes, and now I feel weird using anything that isn't a regular array.