Boxing and Unboxing in Computer Science

[rezamottaghi]

Wow I didn't expect the sudden change of contents. I was watching your shorts from new to old.

[johnwoyurka]

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about but it's explained exceptionally well.

[kaerakh]

Thanks Ryan, I'm a .NET dev who came from a general IT background with no prior training other than PowerShell scripting. Your technical videos are great explanations and have previously helped me fill in those gaps from having a non-college background. Have a good one!

[jord]

Amazing. I've been a software dev for about 3 years working in industry and understand what boxing and unboxing is, but have never heard it explained like this.

I especially like the metaphor of biomes and putting animals outside their usual habitat in a box.

Fantastic video 👏

[sigifredouribe]

My high school freshman son is starting computer science course outside his normal schooling. I’m showing him your channel. Ty for all your support and we can’t stop watching

[Conficient]

I work in software. This is the best explanation of boxing I’ve ever seen 😂

[adumberfling]

You have some of the best shorts I've seen thank you sir

[ChrisKoch]

This broke my brain a little. As an embedded C programmer, I assumed nobody working at a higher level of abstraction was even aware that this sort of thing happened!

[savagebeastking]

What I like about this guy is that’s straight to the point. He doesn’t waste your time

[mgkiryu]

I took some Comp Sci classes in college and they all sucked at teaching. You just taught me something in less than a minute that I struggled with for 3 years.

[octaviodelser]

Untill you meet Python and then fish live on land have limbs and do gymnastics whilst elephants can breath underwater but live in trees .

[arteniteodor]

I’m literally learning this rn and it’s a cool way to think about it ! Thx !

[mc-zyju]

Definitely one of the best analogies I have seen for this.

[DoctorPropht]

I’m learning coding and Anti-Tank tactics. This is the class I needed in school.

[NealKlein]

You're far more interesting than I imagined, and I thought you were already brilliant, honorable, and clear.

[yochillfelix]

This video… just made things click in my head. Im shocked! Thank you so much!

[mugenxfromxthex]

I appreciate you adding this type of content and I was actually going to comment asking if you could do so. I follow you because I'm an IT Analyst with a degree in CS and come from a multigenerational military family and find military strategy, tactics, and technology just as interesting. I'm thinking of going into DevOps since I have my degree in CS and I work in IT.

[papadave]

I was thinking the EXACT same thing just yesterday. But then my head fell off my shoulders.

~Cheers, from Michigan

[johndododoe]

As a long time software dev from before Java, I see it differently . It's not about location (heap/stack) but handling . To lift 10cc of delicious brown liquid with your fingers, you have to put it into something with a handle, like a spoon or cup, but you don't drink the box, which is only there to make it work with your fingers . More technically, interfaces that require an managed object needs someone to create a class whose sole purpose is to contain one base type value . The Java team made such a class for each base type in their language and taught their compiler to use those boxed classes whenever it seemed necessary . In contrast, many older object runtimes such as Perl made sure their fingers (object pointers) could handle basic types directly without the overhead of all those boxes .

[Affalterbach]

Unboxing is when you get a new computer every week. #unboxLew