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      <title>DELETE CASCADE AND UPDATE CASCADE rules in SQL Server foreign key</title>
      <dc:creator>Cyrus Hardison</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2023 06:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/hardison/delete-cascade-and-update-cascade-rules-in-sql-server-foreign-key-4hdo</link>
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      <description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Cascade&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Restrict&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;No action&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
sample code

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Auto ID increment with sequence No.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;


&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;




&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Cascade
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When a "CASCADE" option is used, it means that when a row in the parent table is updated or deleted, the corresponding rows in the child table(s) will also be updated or deleted automatically. For example, if a row in a parent table is deleted, then all the related rows in the child table will also be deleted automatically. This ensures that there are no orphaned rows in the child table(s).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Restrict
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, when a "RESTRICT" option is used, it means that when a row in the parent table is updated or deleted, the corresponding rows in the child table(s) will not be updated or deleted automatically. The database system will prevent such changes and raise an error, unless the related rows in the child table(s) are first updated or deleted manually.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  No action
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When a "NO ACTION" option is used, it means that when a row in the parent table is updated or deleted, the corresponding rows in the child table(s) will not be updated or deleted automatically, just like in the case of "RESTRICT". However, unlike "RESTRICT", "NO ACTION" does not raise an error if a related row in the child table(s) exists that would violate the referential integrity constraint. Instead, it simply allows the update or deletion of the row in the parent table without affecting the child table(s).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  sample code
&lt;/h2&gt;



&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight sql"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;CREATE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;TABLE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;Q_list&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;dbo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;software_tb&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="n"&gt;sn&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nb"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;IDENTITY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NOT&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="n"&gt;id&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;AS&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s1"&gt;'so'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;right&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s1"&gt;'000000'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;CONVERT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;([&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nb"&gt;varchar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;](&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;),[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;sn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;]),(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)))&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;PERSISTED&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NOT&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="n"&gt;name&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nb"&gt;varchar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;30&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;COLLATE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="n"&gt;sw_attributes&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nb"&gt;varchar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;COLLATE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="n"&gt;sw_license&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nb"&gt;varchar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;COLLATE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="k"&gt;version&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nb"&gt;varchar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;COLLATE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="n"&gt;description&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nb"&gt;varchar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;50&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;COLLATE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="n"&gt;vendor&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nb"&gt;varchar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;COLLATE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="n"&gt;network&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nb"&gt;varchar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;COLLATE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="n"&gt;eol_date&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nb"&gt;date&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="n"&gt;eos_date&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nb"&gt;date&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="n"&gt;authorized_quantity&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nb"&gt;varchar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;COLLATE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="k"&gt;server_name&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nb"&gt;varchar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;COLLATE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="n"&gt;installation_status&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nb"&gt;varchar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;COLLATE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="n"&gt;installation_environment&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nb"&gt;varchar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;30&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;COLLATE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="n"&gt;ip&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nb"&gt;varchar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;COLLATE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="n"&gt;port&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nb"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="n"&gt;department_of_use&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nb"&gt;varchar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;COLLATE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="n"&gt;in_charge&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nb"&gt;varchar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;COLLATE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="n"&gt;remarks&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nb"&gt;varchar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;50&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;COLLATE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="n"&gt;server_id&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nb"&gt;varchar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NOT&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="k"&gt;FOREIGN&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;KEY&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;server_id&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;REFERENCES&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;server_tb&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;id&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;ON&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;DELETE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;CASCADE&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;ON&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;UPDATE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;CASCADE&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Auto ID increment with sequence No.
&lt;/h3&gt;



&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight sql"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="n"&gt;sn&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nb"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;IDENTITY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NOT&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="n"&gt;id&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;AS&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s1"&gt;'so'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;right&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s1"&gt;'000000'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;CONVERT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;([&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nb"&gt;varchar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;](&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;),[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;sn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;]),(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)))&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;PERSISTED&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NOT&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;NULL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="p"&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;div class="table-wrapper-paragraph"&gt;&lt;table&gt;
&lt;thead&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;th&gt;sn&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th&gt;id&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/thead&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;so000001&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;so000002&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

</description>
      <category>sql</category>
      <category>beginners</category>
      <category>foreignkey</category>
      <category>mssql</category>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Introduction to AWS Cloud</title>
      <dc:creator>Cyrus Hardison</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2023 13:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/hardison/aws-academy-introduction-to-cloud-1d9k</link>
      <guid>https://dev.to/hardison/aws-academy-introduction-to-cloud-1d9k</guid>
      <description>

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
1. Global Infrastructure

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Technology terminology&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Types of cloud services&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;


&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;2. Structures of the Cloud&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;3. AWS Console&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;




&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  1. Global Infrastructure
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Technology terminology
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight plaintext"&gt;&lt;code&gt;- Cloud computing
The on-demand delivery of compute power, databases, storage, applications, and other IT resources using the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.
- Amazon Web Services(AWS)
A platform that provides a wide range of cloud computing services.
- Cloud Storage
Saving data using a cloud service provider (CSP) instead of a physical machine.
- Server
A computer designed to process requests and deliver data to another computer over the Internet or a local network. In the cloud, a server is hosted by an outside provider, which is accessed over the internet.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Types of cloud services
&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight plaintext"&gt;&lt;code&gt;- Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
Kichen
- Platform as a service (PaaS)
Restaurant
- Software as a service (SaaS)
Buffet
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  2. Structures of the Cloud
&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  3. AWS Console
&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight plaintext"&gt;&lt;code&gt;- Amazon Simple Storage Service(Amazon S3)
A service provided by AWS that stores data for users in the cloud.

- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
A web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Think of it as renting a computer in the cloud.

- Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
  Storage for specific EC2 instances. Think of it as the storage drive for your EC2 instance

- Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
  This lets developers create and manage relational databases in the cloud. Think of a relational database as a set of data with one-to-one relationships. For example, a database of transactions in a department store would match every customer with their purchases. Amazon RDS lets developers track large amounts of this data, and organize and search through it easily. Relational databases are equipped with nonprocedural structured query language (SQL) that simplifies interactions with the database.

- Amazon DynamioDB
  The AWS nonrelational database service. Data is stored in key-value pairs.

- AWS Lambda
  Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume—there is no charge when your code is not running. With Lambda, you can run code for virtually any type of application or backend service—all with zero administration. Upload your code, and Lambda takes care of everything required to run and scales your code with high availability. You can set up your code to automatically start from other AWS services or call it directly from any web or mobile app.

- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
  A service that provides a virtual network that is dedicated to your AWS account. It is logically isolated from other virtual networks in the AWS Cloud. All your AWS services can be launched from a VPC. It is useful for protecting your data and managing who can access your network.

- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  Involves the application of controls to users who need access to computing resources.

- AWS CloudTrail
  Monitors every action that is performed on your AWS account for security purposes.

- Amazon CloudWatch
  CloudWatch is a monitoring service to monitor your AWS resources and the applications that you run on AWS.

- Amazon RedShift
  The AWS data-warehousing service can store massive amounts of data in a way that makes it fast to query for business intelligence purposes.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;

</description>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>beginners</category>
      <category>awscloudcomputing</category>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Java Function Programming</title>
      <dc:creator>Cyrus Hardison</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2023 13:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/hardison/java-function-programming-1elk</link>
      <guid>https://dev.to/hardison/java-function-programming-1elk</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Contents:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
Re-think

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Openning Problem&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Opening Problem-Algorithm&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A Java Solution&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A LINQ Solution&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;


&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
Outline

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Revisit – Defining a method&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lambda Expressions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Syntax&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Implicit Parameter Types&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Implicit Return&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;One Parameter&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Method Reference&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lambdas Summary&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Quiz&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;More Practise&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Function Interface&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;An example - Consumer&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Instance Instantiation&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Functional Interfaces and Lambdas&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
Using Functional Interfaces

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A Example -Pridicate&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;An example – BinaryOperator&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Common Functional Interfaces&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;


&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Streams&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Revisit - working with Collections&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;What are Streams?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Stream Pipelines&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lazy vs eager operations&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Stream Advantages&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Creating Streams from Arrays&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Creating Streams from Collections&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Creating ordered sequence of integer Streams&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Common Intermediate Operations&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Filtering&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;One way to understand a stream’s method&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sorting&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Transforming&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Terminal Operations&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;“Iterating"&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;




&lt;h1&gt;
  
  
  Re-think
&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Openning Problem
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Given a list or array of &lt;em&gt;Person&lt;/em&gt; objects&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;generatePersonList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;ArrayList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&amp;gt;();&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"John"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Tan"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;32&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Jessica"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Lim"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;28&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Mary"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Lee"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;42&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Jason"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Ng"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;33&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Mike"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Ong"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;22&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;





&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kd"&gt;class&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kd"&gt;private&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;String&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;firstName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kd"&gt;private&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;String&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;lastName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kd"&gt;private&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;age&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kd"&gt;private&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;kids&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="c1"&gt;// Constructors, getters &lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="c1"&gt;// omitted for brevity&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;p&gt;How can we print the &lt;strong&gt;full names&lt;/strong&gt; of the &lt;strong&gt;3 youngest&lt;/strong&gt; people?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Opening Problem-Algorithm
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sort the list of people by age, in ascending order&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Get the &lt;strong&gt;first 3&lt;/strong&gt; people from the stored list&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Get the respective &lt;strong&gt;names&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  A Java Solution
&lt;/h2&gt;



&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;sortList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;persons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;persons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;size&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;();&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;++)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="k"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;j&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;j&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;persons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;size&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;();&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;j&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;++)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
            &lt;span class="k"&gt;if&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;persons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;get&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;j&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;getAge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;persons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;get&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;getAge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;())&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
                &lt;span class="c1"&gt;// Switch position of two persons&lt;/span&gt;
                &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;temp&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;persons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;get&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
                &lt;span class="n"&gt;persons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;set&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;persons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;get&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;j&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
                &lt;span class="n"&gt;persons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;set&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;j&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;temp&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
            &lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sort the list by age using Bubble SortNote: there’re many other ways to implement it.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;String&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;getTopThreeNames&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;persons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;String&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;retNames&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;ArrayList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;String&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;();&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;++)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;curPerson&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;persons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;get&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="n"&gt;retNames&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;curPerson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;getFirstName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;" "&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;curPerson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;getLastName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;());&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;retNames&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Get the first 3 people in the sorted list, and.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Get the respective names.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  A LINQ Solution
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If working with C#, we can use &lt;strong&gt;LINQ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Persons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;OrderBy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;person&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;Age&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;Take&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;Select&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;person&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="nc"&gt;FullName&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;FirstName&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;" "&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;LastName&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;});&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;h1&gt;
  
  
  Outline
&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Revisit – Defining a method
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A method definition consist of&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Method name&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Parameters&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Return type&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Method body&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Return value
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;min&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;){&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="k"&gt;if&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;num1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;num2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;){&lt;/span&gt;
            &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num2&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;p&gt;How to make method definition &lt;strong&gt;shorter&lt;/strong&gt; /more &lt;strong&gt;concise&lt;/strong&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Lambda Expressions
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A lambda expression represents an &lt;strong&gt;anonymous methods&lt;/strong&gt;, in &lt;strong&gt;short-hand&lt;/strong&gt; notation&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;it consists of:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;del&gt;Method name&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Parameters&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;del&gt;Return type&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Method boday&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Return value
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;()-&amp;gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Lambda&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;Expression&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;e1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;e2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;e1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;e2&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Syntax
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;a lambda consists of a &lt;strong&gt;parameter list&lt;/strong&gt; followed by theh &lt;strong&gt;arrow token&lt;/strong&gt; (-&amp;gt;) and a &lt;strong&gt;body&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
(parameter list) -&amp;gt; {statements}&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Method:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;min&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;){&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;if&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;num1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;num2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;){&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;p&gt;Lambda:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)-&amp;gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;if&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;num1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;num2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;){&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Implicit Parameter Types
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;parameter types&lt;/strong&gt; are usually &lt;strong&gt;omitted&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Method:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;min&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;if&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;num1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;p&gt;Lambda:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;num1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;if&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;num1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;compiler&lt;/strong&gt; can &lt;strong&gt;determine&lt;/strong&gt; the &lt;strong&gt;parameter types&lt;/strong&gt; by the &lt;strong&gt;lambda’s context&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Implicit Return
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When the &lt;strong&gt;body&lt;/strong&gt; contains only &lt;strong&gt;one expression&lt;/strong&gt;, the return keyword and curly braces &lt;strong&gt;{}&lt;/strong&gt; may also be &lt;strong&gt;omitted&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Method:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;sum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;p&gt;Lambda:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;num1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//......&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;num1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num2&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;compiler&lt;/strong&gt; can also &lt;strong&gt;determine&lt;/strong&gt; the &lt;strong&gt;return type&lt;/strong&gt; by the lambda’s context&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
What is/are the data type(s) of variables n1, n2, and n1 + n2?&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;sum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kt"&gt;double&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;[]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;arr&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mf"&gt;1.1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mf"&gt;2.2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mf"&gt;3.3&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;};&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kt"&gt;double&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;sum&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="nc"&gt;DoubleStream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;arr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
            &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;reduce&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;((&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;n1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;n2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;n1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;n2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;))&lt;/span&gt;
            &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;getAsDouble&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;();&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Sum: "&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;sum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  One Parameter
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When the &lt;strong&gt;parameter list&lt;/strong&gt; contains only &lt;strong&gt;one parameter&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;parameter parentheses&lt;/strong&gt; may also be &lt;strong&gt;omitted&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Method:&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;printValue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="kt"&gt;double&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;myValue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;myValue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Lambda:&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;myValue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; 
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;myValue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Lambda&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="n"&gt;myValue&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; 
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;myValue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;p&gt;In the previous slide, how can the compiler know the method’s &lt;strong&gt;return type&lt;/strong&gt; is integer while it is void in this slide?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Method Reference
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When a lambda expression does &lt;strong&gt;nothing&lt;/strong&gt; but &lt;strong&gt;calls one existing method&lt;/strong&gt;, we can just refer to &lt;strong&gt;ClassName::methodName&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Method:&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;printValue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;double&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;myValue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;myValue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Lambda:&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="n"&gt;myValue&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; 
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;myValue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Method Reference:&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;::&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;





&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Method:&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;compare&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;compareByAge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Lambda&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;compareByAge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Method Reference:&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="nl"&gt;Person:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;compareByAge&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Lambdas Summary
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A lambda is a method with &lt;strong&gt;no method name, no return type&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A nd remove &lt;strong&gt;types&lt;/strong&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;parameters&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;One expression&lt;/strong&gt; in method body? Remove &lt;strong&gt;return&lt;/strong&gt; keyword and &lt;strong&gt;curly braces {}&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Only &lt;strong&gt;one parameter&lt;/strong&gt;? Remove &lt;strong&gt;parameter parentheses ()&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Quiz
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Convert each of the following methods to lambdas or method references, in its &lt;strong&gt;shortest form&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;pow&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;base&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;exp&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;res&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;exp&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;++)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="n"&gt;res&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;*=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;base&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;res&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;


&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Answer:&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;base&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;exp&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;res&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;exp&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;++)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="n"&gt;res&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;*=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;base&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;res&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;


&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;p&gt;Convert each of the following methods to lambdas or method references, in its &lt;strong&gt;shortest form&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;boolean&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;isPrime&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;divisor&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt; 
        &lt;span class="n"&gt;divisor&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;divisor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;++)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="k"&gt;if&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;num&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;%&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;divisor&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;==&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kc"&gt;false&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kc"&gt;true&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Answer:&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="n"&gt;num&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;divisor&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;divisor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;num&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;divisor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;++)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="k"&gt;if&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;num&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;%&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;divisor&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;==&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kc"&gt;false&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kc"&gt;true&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  More Practise
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Convert the following methods to lambda expressions or method references, in its &lt;strong&gt;shortest form&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;String&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;getFullName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;getFirstName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;" "&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;getLastName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;();&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Answer:&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="n"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;getFirstName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;" "&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;getLastName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;





&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;printFullName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;getFirstName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;" "&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;getLastName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;());&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Answer:&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="n"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;getFirstName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;" "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;getLastName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;())&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;





&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;String&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;getFirstName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;getFirstName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;();&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="kd"&gt;class&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kd"&gt;private&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;String&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;firstName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kd"&gt;private&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;String&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;lastName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="c1"&gt;// Other code omitted &lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="c1"&gt;// for brevity&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Answer:&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="nl"&gt;Person:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;getFirstName&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Function Interface
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A functional interface contains exactly &lt;strong&gt;one abstract&lt;/strong&gt; method, called functional method&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Compiler can &lt;strong&gt;map&lt;/strong&gt; a &lt;strong&gt;lambda&lt;/strong&gt; to some respective &lt;strong&gt;functional interfaces&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kd"&gt;interface&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Consumer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="no"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;accept&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="no"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="kd"&gt;interface&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Predicate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="no"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kt"&gt;boolean&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;test&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="no"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="kd"&gt;interface&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;BinaryOperator&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="no"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="no"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;apply&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="no"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;t1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="no"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;t2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  An example - Consumer
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Interface Consumer, method accept(T) &lt;strong&gt;Perform&lt;/strong&gt; a*&lt;em&gt;task&lt;/em&gt;* with the given T, e.g.,&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kd"&gt;interface&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Consumer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="no"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;accept&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="no"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;p&gt;Like other interfaces, we need to &lt;strong&gt;implement&lt;/strong&gt; the&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;abstract method&lt;/strong&gt; when implementing a functional&lt;br&gt;
interface&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;How to implement and instantiate instances of functional interfaces?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Instance Instantiation
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We can &lt;strong&gt;implement&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;instantiate&lt;/strong&gt; an instance of a functional interface by new keyword and implement its abstract methods&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Consumer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Integer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nd"&gt;@Override&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;accept&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Integer&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;num&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;To instantiate an instance, start with new and the interface name &lt;strong&gt;Consumer&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Because interface &lt;strong&gt;Consumer&lt;/strong&gt; supports generic type, specify the generic type. In here, it is &lt;strong&gt;Integer&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Implement the interface’s abstract method. In here, &lt;strong&gt;accept(T)&lt;/strong&gt; becomes &lt;strong&gt;accept(Integer)&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Functional Interfaces and Lambdas
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We can also &lt;strong&gt;implement&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;instantiate&lt;/strong&gt; an instance of a functional interface with the &lt;strong&gt;respective lambdas&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Consumer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Integer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nd"&gt;@Override&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;accept&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Integer&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;num&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//lambda&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="n"&gt;num&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;num&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Lambda&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;::&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;p&gt;Both lambdas can be used as instances of Consumer&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Conversely, given the above lambdas, can the compiler know how to map to Consumer?&lt;br&gt;
Hint: a functional interface only has 1 functional method&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Using Functional Interfaces
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Functional interfaces are usually used &lt;strong&gt;as method parameters&lt;/strong&gt; For example,later we’ll study streams, which can be iterated using&lt;br&gt;
forEach(Consumer) method&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Integer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;[]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;arr&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;};&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Arrays&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;stream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;arr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;forEach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Consumer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Integer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
            &lt;span class="nd"&gt;@Override&lt;/span&gt;
            &lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;accept&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Integer&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
                &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;num&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
            &lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="o"&gt;});&lt;/span&gt;


&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Integer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;[]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;arr&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;};&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Arrays&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;stream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;arr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;forEach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; 
        &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;num&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt; 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;p&gt;In both cases, an instance of Consumer is used as the method &lt;strong&gt;parameters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4&gt;
  
  
  A Example -Pridicate
&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Interface Predicate, method test(T) Test whether the T argument satisfy a condition&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kd"&gt;interface&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Predicate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="no"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kt"&gt;boolean&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;test&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="no"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;p&gt;Like Consumer, we can &lt;strong&gt;implement&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;instantiate&lt;/strong&gt; an instance of Predicate as follows&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Predicate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nd"&gt;@Override&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;boolean&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;test&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;getKids&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;==&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt; 
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Lambda&lt;/span&gt;


&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;h4&gt;
  
  
  An example – BinaryOperator
&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Interface BinaryOperator, method apply(T, T)Performs an operation on the 2 arguments (such as a  calculation) and returns a value of the same type&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kd"&gt;interface&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;BinaryOperator&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="no"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="no"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;apply&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="no"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;t1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="no"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;t2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;p&gt;Some lambdas that may be used as instances of&lt;br&gt;
BinaryOperator&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;y&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;str1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;str2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; 
&lt;span class="n"&gt;str1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;" "&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;str2&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;if&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;y&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;};&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;h4&gt;
  
  
  Common Functional Interfaces
&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;div class="table-wrapper-paragraph"&gt;&lt;table&gt;
&lt;thead&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;th&gt;interface&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Method&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Arguments&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th&gt;What does it do&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Return&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/thead&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Consumer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;accept&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;T&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Perform a task with T, e.g., printing&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;void&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Function&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;apply&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;T&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Call a method on the T argument and return that method’s result&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;R&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Predicate&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;test&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;T&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Test whether the T argument satisfies a condition&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;bool&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Supplier&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;get&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Empty&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Produce a value of type T, e.g., creating a collection object&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;T&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;UnaryOperator&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;apply&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;T&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Perform an operation on the T argument and return a value of T&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;T&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;BinaryOperator&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;apply&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;T, T&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Perform an operation on the two&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;T&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Streams
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Revisit - working with Collections
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When processing a collection, we usually&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Iterate over its elements&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Do some work with each element
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nf"&gt;sumOfEven&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;[]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;arr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;sum&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="k"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nl"&gt;num:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;arr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
            &lt;span class="k"&gt;if&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;num&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;%&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;==&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
                &lt;span class="n"&gt;sum&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;num&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;sum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  What are Streams?
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A Stream is a sequence of elements on which  we perform tasks&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Specify only what we want to do&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Then simply let the Stream deal with how to do it
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nf"&gt;sumOfEven2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;[]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;arr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;IntStream&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;arr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;filter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;==&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;sum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;();&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Stream Pipelines
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Source=&amp;gt;Create Stream=&amp;gt;Operation 1=&amp;gt;Operation2=&amp;gt;.....Operation N=&amp;gt;Terminal Operation=&amp;gt;Result&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Source: Usually , an array or a collection&lt;br&gt;
Operation: Filtering, sorting,type conversions, mapping...&lt;br&gt;
Terminal operation: Aggregate results, eg., count, sum or collecting a collection.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;IntStream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;arr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;filter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;%&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;==&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;sum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//arr: Source&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//of: Create stream&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//filter: Intermediate operation&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//sum: Terminal operation&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Lazy vs eager operations
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Intermediate&lt;/strong&gt; operations are &lt;strong&gt;lazy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;=&amp;gt; &lt;em&gt;Not perform until a&lt;br&gt;
terminal operation is&lt;br&gt;
called&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Terminal&lt;/strong&gt; operations are &lt;strong&gt;eager&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
=&amp;gt; Perform &lt;strong&gt;right away&lt;/strong&gt; when being called&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Stream Advantages
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Allows us to write more declarative and more concise programs&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Allows us to focus on the problem rather than the code&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Facilitates parallelism&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Creating Streams from Arrays
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Streams can be created from arrays with different&lt;br&gt;
approaches&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;streamFromArray1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;[]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;arr&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;};&lt;/span&gt; 
        &lt;span class="nc"&gt;IntStream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;arr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
            &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;forEach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;print&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;" "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//3 10 6 1 4&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;streamFromArray2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Integer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;[]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;arr&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;};&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Arrays&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;stream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;arr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
            &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;forEach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;print&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;" "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//2 9 5 0 3&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Creating Streams from Collections
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Streams can also be created from any implementation of Collection interface, e.g., List, Set…&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;streamFromList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;String&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;myList&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;ArrayList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&amp;gt;();&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;myList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Hi"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;myList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"SA"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;myList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"students"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;myList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;stream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;forEach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;::&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Hi&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//SA&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//students&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Creating ordered sequence of integer Streams
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Ordered sequence of integers can be created using&lt;br&gt;
IntStream.range() and IntStream.rangeClosed()&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;orderedSequenceStream1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;IntStream&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;range&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;forEach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;print&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;" "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;orderedSequenceStream2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;IntStream&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;rangeClosed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;forEach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;print&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;" "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Common Intermediate Operations
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;div class="table-wrapper-paragraph"&gt;&lt;table&gt;
&lt;thead&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Method&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Parameter&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Description&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/thead&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;filter&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Predicate&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Returns a stream consisting of the elements of this stream that match the given predicate.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;sorted&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Comparator&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Returns a stream consisting of the elements of this stream, sorted according to the provided Comparator.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;map&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Function&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Returns a stream consisting of the results of applying the given function to the elements of this stream.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;distinct&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;No&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Returns a stream consisting of the distinct elements (according to Object.equals(Object)) of this stream.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;limit&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;long&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Returns a stream consisting of the elements of this stream, truncated to be no longer than the given number in length.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;skip&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;long&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Returns a stream consisting of the remaining elements of this stream after discarding the first n elements of the stream. If this stream contains fewer than n elements then an empty stream will be returned&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Filtering
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Elements in a stream can be filtered using filter(Predicate)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;generatePersonList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; 
&lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;ArrayList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&amp;gt;();&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"John"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Tan"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;32&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Jessica"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Lim"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;28&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Mary"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Lee"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;42&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Jason"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Ng"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;33&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Mike"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Ong"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;22&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;filtering&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;persons&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; 
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;generatePersonList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;();&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;persons&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;stream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;filter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;getKids&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;==&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;forEach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;::&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;


&lt;span class="kd"&gt;class&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kd"&gt;private&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;String&lt;/span&gt; 
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;firstName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kd"&gt;private&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;String&lt;/span&gt; 
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;lastName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kd"&gt;private&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;age&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kd"&gt;private&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;kids&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="c1"&gt;// Other code omitted &lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="c1"&gt;// for brevity&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;


&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//John, Tan, 32, 2&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Mary, Lee, 42, 2&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  One way to understand a stream’s method
&lt;/h3&gt;



&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;filter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;getKids&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;==&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I want to filter elements in a stream&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ok, you need to call filter() method, and give me a Predicate in form of a lambda&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I will loop through every element in the stream, and with the current element…&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Let’s name that element as x, the left side of the lambda&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You need to let me know what to do with x, using any method of the data type in the stream holding x. For example, Person in the last slide&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I want to filter only x
having 2 kids, so I return a Boolean Expression with such condition. It is put in the body, the right side of the lambda&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;p&gt;=&amp;gt;Most of stream methods happen in this manner. Step 2, 4 and 6 change depending on the scenario&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Sorting
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Streams can be sorted using sorted(Comparator) As usual, a Comparator object can be created using a lambda&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;generatePersonList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;ArrayList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&amp;gt;();&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"John"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Tan"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;32&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Jessica"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Lim"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;28&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Mary"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Lee"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;42&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Jason"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Ng"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;33&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Mike"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Ong"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;22&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;sortBySingleField&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;persons&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;generatePersonList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;();&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;persons&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;stream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;sorted&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;p1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;p2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; 
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;p1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;getFirstName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;().&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;compareTo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt; 
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;p2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;getFirstName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()))&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;forEach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;


&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Jason, Ng, 33, 1&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Jessica, Lim, 28, 3&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//John, Tan, 32, 2&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Mary, Lee, 42, 2&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Mike, Ong, 22, 0&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, a Comparator object can be created using Comparator.comparing(Function)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;generatePersonList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;ArrayList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&amp;gt;();&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"John"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Tan"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;32&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Jessica"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Lim"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;28&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Mary"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Lee"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;42&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Jason"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Ng"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;33&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Mike"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Ong"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;22&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;sortBySingleField&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;persons&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;generatePersonList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;();&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;persons&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;stream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;sorted&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Comparator&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;comparing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nl"&gt;Person:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;getFirstName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;))&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;forEach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Jason, Ng, 33, 1&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Jessica, Lim, 28, 3&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//John, Tan, 32, 2&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Mary, Lee, 42, 2&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Mike, Ong, 22, 0&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;p&gt;Streams can also be sorted with multiple fields and in reversed order&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;generatePersonList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;ArrayList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&amp;gt;();&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"John"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Tan"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;32&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Jessica"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Lim"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;28&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Mary"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Lee"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;42&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Jason"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Ng"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;33&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Mike"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Ong"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;22&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;sortByMultiFields&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;persons&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;generatePersonList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;();&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;persons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;stream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;sorted&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Comparator&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;comparing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nl"&gt;Person:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;getKids&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;thenComparing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nl"&gt;Person:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;getAge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;reversed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;())&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;forEach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Jason, Ng, 33, 1&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Jessica, Lim, 28, 3&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//John, Tan, 32, 2&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Mary, Lee, 42, 2&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Mike, Ong, 22, 0&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Transforming
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Each of elements in a Stream can be transformed to another value (even another type) using map(Function)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;generatePersonList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;ArrayList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&amp;gt;();&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"John"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Tan"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;32&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Jessica"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Lim"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;28&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Mary"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Lee"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;42&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Jason"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Ng"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;33&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Mike"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Ong"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;22&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;transforming1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;persons&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;generatePersonList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;();&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;persons&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;stream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;sorted&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Comparator&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;comparing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nl"&gt;Person:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;getFirstName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;))&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;map&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;getFirstName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; 
    &lt;span class="s"&gt;" "&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;getLastName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;())&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;forEach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;::&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;


&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Jason Ng&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Jessica Lim&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//John Tan&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Mary Lee&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Mike Ong&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;p&gt;Of course, map(Function) can also be applied to&lt;br&gt;
other types of streams&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;transforming2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;[]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;arr&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mi"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;};&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;IntStream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;arr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;map&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mi"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;forEach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;print&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;" "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//0 2 4 6 8 10&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;transforming3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;String&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;[]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;arr&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"aa"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"bb"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"cc"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"dd"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;};&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;Arrays&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;stream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;arr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;map&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nl"&gt;String:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;toUpperCase&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;forEach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;print&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;" "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//AA BB CC DC&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;p&gt;A stream can be mapped to a numeric stream&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;transforming4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="nc"&gt;String&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;[]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;names&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; 
&lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"John"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Jessica"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Mary"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Jason"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;"Mike"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;};&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="kt"&gt;int&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;maxLength&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="nc"&gt;Stream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;names&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;mapToInt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;length&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;())&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;max&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;getAsInt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;();&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;println&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"Name with maximum length is "&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; 
&lt;span class="n"&gt;maxLength&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//Name with maximum length is 7&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Terminal Operations
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;div class="table-wrapper-paragraph"&gt;&lt;table&gt;
&lt;thead&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Method&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Parameters&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Description&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/thead&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;forEach&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Consumer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Performs an action for each element of this stream.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;reduce&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;T, BinaryOperator&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Performs a reduction on the elements of this stream, using the provided identity value and an associative accumulation function, and returns the reduced value.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;reduce&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;BinaryOperator&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Performs a reduction on the elements of this stream, using an associative accumulation function, and returns an Optional describing the reduced value, if any.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;min&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Comparator&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Returns the minimum element of this stream according to the provided Comparator. This is a special case of a reduction.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;max&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Comparator&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Returns the maximum element of this stream according to the provided Comparator. This is a special case of a reduction.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;average&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;No Return&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;the average of all elements in a numeric stream.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  “Iterating"
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Performs an action for each element of the stream using forEach(Consumer)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight java"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="kd"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kd"&gt;static&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="kt"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;forEachStream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt; 
&lt;span class="o"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nc"&gt;List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nc"&gt;String&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;list&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;ArrayList&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;&amp;lt;&amp;gt;();&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;list&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"aa"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;list&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"bb"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;list&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;add&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;"cc"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;);&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="n"&gt;list&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;stream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;forEach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="o"&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nc"&gt;System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="na"&gt;print&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="s"&gt;" "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;));&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span class="c1"&gt;//aa bb cc&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Call forEach()&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Given a Consumer object in the form of lambda as the  argument We can think like this: given each element e, what Java should do with it (and return  nothing as defined in Consumer interface)? In here,we ask Java to print the value of element e&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;p&gt;=&amp;gt;List also has forEach() method, operating in the&lt;br&gt;
same manner&lt;/p&gt;

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