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Joshua Bloch, a Common card
Joshua J. Bloch is an American software engineer and a technology author.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 50
- DEF
- 25
- Power
- 75
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 11,000
Power 75 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
Joshua Bloch quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Joshua Bloch card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
He is the author of the programming guide Effective Java, which won the ____ Jolt Award, and is a co-author of two other Java books, Java Puzzlers and Java Concurrency In Practice.
Answer
2000s. He is the author of the programming guide Effective Java, which won the 2001 Jolt Award, and is a co-author of two other Java books, Java Puzzlers and Java Concurrency In Practice. From the Joshua Bloch article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Vyacheslav Glazkov. Vyacheslav Glazkov 56 · Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper 53 · Joshua Bloch 50 · Beor 44 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including the Java Collections Framework, the java.math package, and the assert mechanism.
- He is the author of the programming guide Effective Java, which won the 2001 Jolt Award, and is a co-author of two other Java books, Java Puzzlers and Java Concurrency In Practice.
- Bloch holds a B.S. in computer science from Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science and a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Joshua Bloch article was read about 11,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 50 and blocks with 25: each hit it takes is cut by 10 %.
How to get Joshua Bloch
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The cards just above and just below Joshua Bloch in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Theodore Ts'oCommon · Science · ATK 53 DEF 22
- Al-FarazdaqCommon · Arts · ATK 50 DEF 25
- BunkyūCommon · History · ATK 51 DEF 24
- Julien GracqCommon · Arts · ATK 52 DEF 23
- Vyacheslav GlazkovCommon · Society · ATK 56 DEF 19
- Étienne BacrotCommon · Society · ATK 51 DEF 24
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Joshua Bloch (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Billy Bob Bain, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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