The Pain of OOP, Lecture #6: NULL references [object oriented programming crash course]
A lecture for BSc students in Innopolis University.
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0:00 Introduction
3:44 Quote
11:57 Fail Fast vs Fail Safe
12:50 Defaults
21:12 Exception swallowing
25:39 Software development lifecycle (SDLC)
30:12 Alternatives to Returning NULL
34:01 Returning a List or a NULL
39:40 Returning a Fake Entity
45:16 Alternatives to Checking for NULL
56:37 &. operator in Ruby
1:00:45 NULL-awareness in Kotlin
1:04:45 Alternatives to Storing NULL
1:13:03 Object Thinking
1:19:10 Spring Boot