Java is one of the most common programming languages in the tech space. Companies across the world use Java for back-end web development and mobile applications.

With Java running critical applications the world over, the nearly 25-year-old programming language must balance its community’s affection for its syntax with new trends.

Take your coding to the next level by learning advanced programming with generics. Here's how to use generic methods with type inference, type parameters, and wildcards in your Java programs.

Java’s collections like arrays and lists are foundational building blocks. Functional programming techniques are at times the ideal way to work with these collections.

However, Java 13 does also bring dynamic class-data sharing archives, memory improvements, and a new implementation of the Java sockets application programming interface.