Logic isn't the most exciting of subjects and you might think that it had its day with the Greeks, but you would be wrong. Logic isn't just part of programming, it can be all of  it!

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There has been a long-running debate on whether or not multiple monitors - specifically at least two - improve programmer productivity but there are still some things worth saying.

The clamour for safe programming languages seems to be growing and becoming official. We have known for a while that C and C++ are dangerous languages so why has it become such an issue now and is it even relevant any more?

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A novel investigation into the gender gap between men and women regarding coding ability was undertaken by Dr Siân Brooke. Her conclusion? There is a difference in the Python code produced by men and woman, but it is to do with coding style and doesn't affect code quality.

JetBrains has improved its IDEs with features to suggest the logical structure of code, to streamline the debugging experience for Kubernetes applications, and provide comprehensive cluster-wide Kubernetes log access.

The Wasmer team has released Wasmer 5.0. The WebAssembly runtime adds experimental support for more back ends including V8, Wasmi and WAMR. It also now has iOS support, and upgraded compilers including using LLVM 18 and latest Cranelift.

The offspring of that partnership is pg_duckdb, an extension that embeds the DuckDB engine into the PostgreSQL database, allowing it to handle analytical workloads.

Microsoft has announced that Copilot is being integrated into Data Wrangler. The move will give data scientists the ability to use natural language to clean and transform data, and to get help with fixing errors in data transformation code.

A news item with the headline "Firefox browser takes on Microsoft" from 20 years ago has attracted renewed attention. It was originally published on the BBC News website on November 9th, 2004 recording the release of Firefox 1.0. The latest stable version of Firefox is 132.0.1 released on November 5th, 2024.

Google is making a new differential privacy library available as open source. PipelineDP4J is a Java-based library that can be used to analyse data sets while preserving privacy.

Ursina is a new open source game engine in which you can code any type of game in Python, be it 2-D, 3-D, an application, a visualization, you name it.

Apache has announced the release of Tomcat 11, as well as marking the 25th anniversary of the first commit to the Apache Tomcat source code repository since becoming an ASF project.

Edera has released Am I Isolated , an open source container security benchmark that probes users runtime environments and tests for container isolation.

Author: John M. Shea
Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
Date: February 2024
Pages: 502
ISBN: 978-1032350424
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Audience: Python developers interested in data science
Level: Intermediate
Rating: 3.5
Reviewer: Mike James
Data science still hot?

This introduction to JavaScript has been updated in the new edition with new features, fresh exercises, and fun projects. Marijn Haverbeke takes the reader from JavaScript's basic elements, building up to engaging, complete programs. The author's personal experiences from years of maintaining popular open source projects enliven the text with practical insights and examples. This edition of Eloquent JavaScript updates the book to describe the 2024 version of JavaScript, and shifts the attention given to some topics to better reflect current development practices.

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This book provides a  broad introduction to cryptography—what it is, how it really works, what its future holds, and why every informed citizen should understand its basics. Panos Louridas explains just how cryptography works to keep our communications confidential, tracing it back all the way to its ancient roots. Then he follows its long and winding path to where we are today and reads the signs that point to where it may go tomorrow.

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This is the next book in the popular Bite-Size Builds series, following Super Bite-Size Builds and Amazing Bite-Size Builds. The Mojang AB team shows how to design, build and customize 20 mini-projects in Minecraft.Projects range from building a fire station and a fire engine to put out your campfires to building a house on the moon and a UFO to get you there.

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