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October 13 - 19, 2016
Book Reviews
This week's book reviews belong to a special category - they are good books for the complete beginner to programming.
- Begin to Code with C#
Mike James concludes his review with:
This is a real beginner's book and if you are, or know, a real beginner then I would encourage you to give it a try.
News
BBC Micro:Bit Goes Worldwide Wednesday 19 October
The micro:bit had the promise to revolutionize UK computer education. With the formation of the Micro:bit Educational Foundation the time has come to take on the world - but has it got what it takes? The micro:bit developer community is now launched and perhaps supplies just what is needed.
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Microsoft Turns LightSwitch Off Wednesday 19 October
You might not be familiar with LightSwitch, but back in 2010 Microsoft was pushing it very hard as a technology to use to create programs. Now the switch is set to off and if you had used it you would now be looking around for a replacement.
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JS Foundation Supported by IBM Wednesday 19 October
The newly announced JS Foundation, formed with help from the Linux Foundation is an expansion of the jQuery foundation. Intended as an umbrella project to support the JavaScript ecosystem, the JS Foundation has IBM and Samsung among its initial members.
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Atom Asks About Telemetry Tuesday 18 October
An updated version of Atom has been released just five weeks after Atom 1.10 was released. Atom 1.11 offers a number of improvements to the text editor.
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Microsoft Open Sources P Monday 17 October
Microsoft has made P, its event-driven programming language, open source. P is designed to give developers a way to write safe asynchronous event-driven programs.
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Get Involved With AI XPrize Monday 17 October
The registration deadline for the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE has been extended by six weeks in the hope of attracting more teams to participate. Submissions now need to be made no later than January 15, 2017 with Early Bird Registration closing on November 15, 2016.
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Fortran At 60 Still Going Strong Sunday 16 October
The first Fortran Reference Manual was released on October 15, 1956, six months before the first working compilers were distributed to IBM customers. While Fortran may have challengers as the first compiled computer language, it is certainly the most influential and the most durable of the early high-level languages.
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Reversible PHP Debugger Released Friday 14 October
Dontbug is a new reverse debugger for PHP that lets you record the execution of PHP scripts, in command line mode or in the browser, and replay the same execution back in a PHP IDE debugger.
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$200 Million Investment In IBM Watson Friday 14 October
IBM, acknowledging Watson's far reaching achievements and ever growing untapped potential, has invested $200 million dollars in Watson's German IoT headquarters, in a strategic move to expand research as well as its client base.
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Stack Overflow Helps You Tell Your Story To Land Your Next Job Thursday 13 October
Stack Overflow already has a Jobs section intended to make it easy for devs to find their dream jobs. Now with the new Developer Story feature Stack Overflow is giving Devs a easier way to set out their selling points and get personalized job recommendations.
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DeepMind's Differentiable Neural Network Thinks Deeply Thursday 13 October
Neural networks are great at reacting to complex data, but not so good at the sort of slower thinking it takes to solve a problem like getting from A to B using a subway or unscrambling a sliding block puzzle. Now DeepMind seems to have discovered how to make neural networks think slow and deep.
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Blender Adds Spherical Stereo Virtual Reality Thursday 13 October
The latest release of Blender, 2.78, has arrived with new features including freehand curves, drawing over surfaces, and spherical stereo images rendering support for VR.
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Professional Programmer
What Makes A Programmer Thursday 13 October
The following account is based on personal experience and you can feel free to disagree with it. I can only hope that doing so illuminates your opinion about this strange and amazing thing we do with symbols that is called "programming".
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The Core
Fundamental C - Program Structure Monday 17 October
This is an introduction to the very basics of programming in C. It covers the least you have to know to begin creating a program - variables, conditionals and loops. If you are already a C programmer then move along because there is nothing to see here. If you are a beginner then read on.
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