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December 1-7, 2016
Book Reviews
Harry Fairhead awarded 4 out of 5 possible stars, explaining:
The problem with this book is that the Raspberry Pi is added to most of the chapters as a sort of "drive by tour". After explaining all of the details of some hardware or software feature, we have the equivalent of "and the Pi has one of those". This isn't a problem as long as you haven't bought the book to find out specific things about the Raspberry Pi - it certainly isn't a "hardware secrets of the Pi" book.
Ian Elliot awarded a rating of 4, concluding:
The book is actually very good and you will learn a lot if you read it. The problem is that to solve the problem of responsive design you need some good tools that will help you. At the very least you need a framework like Boost, although this isn't the only choice, and you need to master it. This book takes a lower level approach to the problem and as a result you really only need to read it if you too want to take a low level approach. Of course the advantage of this is that you can be truly innovative and creative with a low level approach.
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News
HackerRank Reveals Which Universities Have Best Coders Wednesday 07 December
Which colleges have the best coders in the world? HackerRank, the largest online learning and competition community for programmers with a global reach asked this question. Make a guess before reading on to find the answer.
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New Amazon Build Services Wednesday 07 December
Amazon's flood of announcements at Re:Invent included managed build services, and new ways to build and debug complex distributed applications.
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AWS Improvements For Developers Tuesday 06 December
Amazon has announced improvements for developers at its recent Re:Invent conference. These fall into a number of areas, and here we look at those concerned with database.
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Work Begins on ActiveGo Tuesday 06 December
ActiveState has begun building its distribution of Go, the first of four languages it plans to add to its portfolio in the coming year. The beta version will be publicly available in Q1 2017.
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Resources for Hour of Code Monday 05 December
Computer Science Education Week starts today, December 5th. Between now and December 11th events to bring code into schools are planned across the world. There are now tens, if not hundreds of pre-packaged resources with something to suit every classroom and each individual. Here we consider at just a few, after a look at what CSEd week/Code.org has already achieved.
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BBC Micro Turns 35 Sunday 04 December
The BBC Micro was released on December 1, 1981. Nicknamed the Beeb over 1.5 million were sold and it inspired a generation of programmers and is still has dedicated community of retrocomputing enthusiasts. Will the same be true of the latest venture, the BBC micro:bit?
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Gifts For Programmers Saturday 03 December
So you have a programmer to buy a gift for? Not easy because you might not understand their strange world or the strange humour. We have a solution - just read on. If you are the programmer in question then just optimize the code and buy the gift yourself.
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Free Version Of PVS-Studio Released Friday 02 December
The team behind PVS-Studio has released a free-to-use version of the static code analyser. The news follows the recent release of a Linux version of the tool.
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Amazon AI Services Friday 02 December
News from re:Invent, the annual AWS developer conference includes three new AI services that can be used within apps. There is a free tier for all three, bringing the prospect of applied AI ever nearer.
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Google Code-In Underway Thursday 01 December
Google Code-in is a contest that introduces teenagers to the world of open source. It takes place entirely online and is open to students between 13 and 17. Now in its seventh year GCI runs until January 16, 2017 and there are task from 17 open source organisations to be completed.
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The Weekly Top 10: More PHP Web Development Resources Thursday 01 December
The focus returns to PHP for this week's round up of posts about web development selected from other people's blogs. There are a number of how tos and you can find out why Slack chose PHP, why Windows 10 makes a good development environment and why reactive programming is the way of the future.
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The Core
The Trick Of The Mind - Turing Complete Monday 05 December
This second chapter of our new book-in-progress on the nature of programming is aimed at programmers and non-programmers alike. If you can't program, find out why you should learn. If you can program, find out why what you do is special and how it is a generally applicable thinking style.
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The Bloom Filter Thursday 01 December
You may never have heard of a Bloom Filter, but this ingenious algorithm is used in Google's BigTable database to save time fruitlessly searching for data that isn't there.
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