The Raspberry Pi Foundation in conjunction with the University of Cambridge have launched Ada Computer Science, a free online learning platform for teachers, students, and anyone interested in learning about computer science.

The past is a guide to the future, but sometimes you are just left wondering what went so wrong that we couldn't have the future we were promised. So it is with Something Pretty Right which tells the story of Visual Basic - its rise and its assassination. All down to Microsoft.

The latest update to IntelliJ IDEA has been released by JetBrains, with improvements including an updated UI, faster Maven imports and background commit checks.

PyTorch 2.0 has been released with fundamental changes to the way it works at the compiler level, faster performance, and support for Dynamic Shapes and Distributed.

Sidewalk has been a long time coming, but now it seems it is ready for us to test. Initially, it promises free connectivity over 90% of the US, but as the say there's no such thing as a free connection. 

There's a free course designed for novices in Kotlin that focuses on the basic concepts of the language. Apart from the content itself, the interesting of feature of this course is that it runs inside IntelliJ.

Anaconda has released PyScript.com, a free coding platform for creating web applications with data interactivity and computation based on Python.

JetBrains has released WebStorm 2023.1, its IDE customized for JavaScript and TypeScript. The updated version has support for the Astro framework, and TypeScript support for Vue templates.

The Israeli Computer Scientist Jacob Ziv, co-inventor of the lossless file compression methods that were and still are relied on for storing huge amounts of data in the smallest possible number of bits, has died at the age of 91.

JDK 20 is now generally available with many new features that render Java not just relevant to today's requirements but a few steps ahead. Let's find out what's new.

Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel who pioneered microprocessor technology and whose name is known for Moore's Law, passed away on March 24, 2023. The announcement of his death was made jointly by Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the philanthropic organization he founded with his wife in 2000.

If you want to keep up with what's important from the point of view of the developer, you can rely on the  I Programmer team to sift through the news to select items that are of interest. Here's the digest of this week's content.

The ACM has named Robert Metcalfe as recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for leading the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet local-area networking technology. While it is now almost 50 years since Ethernet was first used at Xerox PARC, it remains in use today by almost every computer and connected device.

Apache CloudStack has been updated with a LTS release with a range of new features and improvements including edge zones, autoscaling and a new two-factor authentication framework.

sigstore-java, currently under development but not yet ready for general-purpose use,  is a tool for signing and verifying Java package distributions with Sigstore's keyless signing. This is one more step being taken Sigstore towards securing the software supply chain.

GNU Octave 8.1 has been released with improvements including changes to the graphics backend, better compatibility with Matlab and a number of new and improved functions.

... and dead and gone. This long time talking point really isn't relevant since the advent of LLMs like GTP. We may be worried about AI taking our coding jobs, but let us not forget that this is the time when the Turing Test was passed.

AI may be threatening to take away our jobs - but on the other hand it opens up plenty of opportunities for those with the right skills. A whole raft of Udacity Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree programs restart next week to help you become career-ready in AI.