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Courtney McCauley opened a new independent bookstore, Twice Read Books & More, in Richmond. The business began as a popular traveling book trailer before expanding into a permanent storefront. In ...

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Creating simple data classes in Java traditionally required substantial boilerplate code. Consider how we would represent Java’s mascots, Duke and Juggy: public class JavaMascot { private final String ...