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All right so welcome to coding blocks. I'm Joe Zach

I'm Michael Outlaw and I'm Alan Underwood and today we're discussing boxing and unboxing.

Yeah so we wanted to give you guys like a real world example and

Grand Theft Auto just came out the new version and

say I wanted to ship a version or a copy of it to Michael because he's the outlaw.

That joke never gets old.

And depending on how I'm shipping it, you know, there's UPS or FedEx or DHL, the shipper doesn't really know what's in the box.

They know how much it weighs, but they don't know it could be flammable or fragile.

They're supposed to know if it's fragile, but in any case, the recipient knows

how to use it and it's a responsibility to know, but the shipper just cares that they can

treat it like any other box. They can put it on their planes and trains and trucks and get to the receiver

and that's all they care about. And it's up to the recipient to know what to do with it.

It's a little bit like our topic this week. We're going to be talking about boxing and

unboxing. I just want to give you a little background before we get started.

All right, so that leads us into the stack and just a real quick overview of the

stack is there is a very small piece of memory and I believe it's

one megabyte by definition of variables within a method that actually go on to the

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