Boxing and Unboxing in Computer Programming
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As a beginner, you may have heard other programmers talk about ‘boxing’ and ‘unboxing’ and wondered what was going on. Did someone get a gift? Are they moving houses? Turns out, boxing and unboxing are programming concepts that have to do...