I'm a CS student taking a 100-level class in Java. We're just learning about Java arrays this week. I posted this in the class conference, and I'd like to get some input from experienced programmers ...

It's not terribly clean, but you could use indexOf() and check if it returns -1. Better than breaking out a loop.

Support for generics has been a long requested enhancement. It eliminates the need to use casts to change the type of a referenced object. Previously, Java collections were typically created to hold ...