2- The Need for Generics

Jun 20, 2026 04:39 · 3:32 · English · Whisper Turbo · 2 speakers

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Lecture Index

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Before we talk about what generics are,

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let's look at the problem they try to solve.

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So in this project,

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I'm going to add a new package,

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a new package called generics.

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I'm going to write all the code for this section inside this package.

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Now let's say we want to implement a class for storing a

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list of integers.

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So in this package,

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we add a new class called list.

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In this class,

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we need an array to store our integers.

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So let's declare a private field,

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private integer array items.

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and we set it to a new int array of 10.

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Now we shouldn't hard code the length of this array here.

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It's better to add a constructor and receive the initial capacity of this

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array as a parameter.

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But let's not worry about this and instead implement a basic list class.

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So what is the next thing we need here?

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We need a method for adding a new integer to this list.

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So a public method,

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public void add,

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which gets an integer called item.

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Now here we also need a private field.

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for keeping track of the number of items in this list.

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So private int count.

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Now back to our add method,

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we type items of count and we set this to

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this new item.

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So initially count is 0 and we store this item at index 0.

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Now here we should increment count so next time we add an item it

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will be stored at index 1.

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Now we also need a method for getting an integer by

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its index.

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public integer get,

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we give it an index,

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and here we return items of index.

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Now here we're not validating this index parameter,

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we're not checking to see if it's negative or greater than the number of items in

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this list.

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Let's not worry about these details and focus on an absolute basic implementation

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of a list.

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So now that we have a list,

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let's go back to our main class.

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Here we create a new list,

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new list,

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we want to import the one that is declared in this package that we just created because

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we have another class by the same name in java,

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it's declared in java .util package.

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We don't want that one.

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So, let's import our own class.

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Alright,

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now we call the add method and insert an item in this list.

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Now,

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let's say tomorrow we want to have a list of users.

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So,

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first I'm going to add a new class in this package.

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called user.

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Now in this class we could have fields like username,

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password,

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email, and so on.

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For now, let's not worry about this.

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Instead we want to have a list of users.

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Here's the problem.

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This list that we have here,

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we cannot use this class for storing users.

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We can only store integers in this class.

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So with this approach,

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we'll have to create another class called user list,

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user list,

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and

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In this class,

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we're going to have a user array.

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So private user array,

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let's import this type.

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We call it items and set it to new user array

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of 10.

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Similarly,

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we need a count field,

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so private integer count,

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then we'll have to implement our add and get methods.

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That's a lot of code duplication.

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What if in the future we want to have a list of strings?

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So this approach is very tedious and not scalable.

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In the next video,

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I'm going to show you one way to solve this problem.

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