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As well as sifting through the news, the IProgrammer team does the same for books, selecting titles for Book Watch and for review. In articles this week Nikos Vaggalis prepares for his Android Developer Nanodegree Capstone and we revisit the 1950's, the decade in which the first high-level computer programmer lanaguage, Fortran, took over from assembler. To receive this digest automatically by email, sign up for our weekly newsletter.
November 16 - 22, 2017 Book Watch This week we have added the latest title in the I Programmer Library to Book Watch, our archive for newly published books, click the links for more details:
Book Reviews
Awarding a rating of 4.5 out of 5, Kay Ewbank concludes: Overall, I liked this book. and although I did have a feeling at times that the author was re-inventing the wheel of the standard database application, the tying together of the different components was well explained and carried out.
Awarding a rating of 4 out of 5, Kay Ewbank summed up her review with: ... readable and fun. There’s plenty of practical advice, both technical and people-related, and this is a book I’d recommend you read, take away the useful parts, and then leave on your manager’s desk.
The Grasshopper Problem Wednesday 22 November I am always amazed by the subtlety of probability. You can cite the Monty Hall problem or The Fisher Yates Shuffle, but what about the Grasshopper problem? Easy to state, but very difficult to solve and slightly unbelievable. For the second year in a row a Chinese team has been awarded the ACM Gordon Bell Prize, presented annually to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing. This year the focus of the research was earthquake simulation. GitHub Atom Adds Collaborative Coding Wednesday 22 November There's a new version of GitHub's Atom text editor with support for real-time collaborative coding. Prepare to Run a Code Club with Future Learn Tuesday 21 November The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just opened the doors on a new free, short online course on the Future Learn platform. The aim of 'Prepare to Run a Code Club' is to assist new volunteers who want to launch and run coding clubs for 9- to 13-year olds. This more a "what is going on" sort of story than any prediction of the future. About a week ago the Google team developing the mysterious Fuchsia operating system forked Apple's Swift language. Why? Apache Kylin Gets Table Level ACL Management Tuesday 21 November There's an updated version of Apache Kylin, the "Extreme OLAP Engine for Big Data" with improvements including table-level ACL management. Programmers Against Slaughterbots Monday 20 November Autonomous weapons might sound like a good idea at first, why send soldiers to die, but the potential for misuse is obvious. You might not have thought of such as the slaughterbot - you need to see this. Blockchain a Blockchain, Bitcoin and Ethereum have been added to Hacker News Hiring Trends, which tracks the popularity of languages, frameworks and technologies in the Hacker News thread "Ask HN: Who is hiring?". TensorFlow Lite For Mobiles Monday 20 November Google has announced a developer preview of TensorFlow Lite, a version of TensorFlow for mobile and embedded devices. Algorithmic Designs Of Wind-up Toys Sunday 19 November Oh, the joys of being a programmer - you can put your nose into any topic and do something fun. In this case a team of researchers has automated and improved the design of wind-up toys. Atlas, Boston Dynamics' bipedal robot, has progressed from falling over to performing impressive gymnastics. There isn't much information on how it does it, but it is still worth watching. Google SLING: An Open Source Natural Language Parser Friday 17 November Google Research has just released an open source project that might be of interest if you are into natural language processing. SLING is a combination of recurrent neural networks and frame based parsing. Azure Updates Announced At MS Connect() Friday 17 November Microsoft has announced a number of extras and improvements for Azure at its Connect() virtual event this week, including support for Databricks, Cassandra API, and Maria DB. Poor old Access and SQL Server seem to have been sidelined. Visual Studio Live Share, which will bring real-time collaborative editing and debugging to both the full VS IDE and to VS Code, made its debut on the first day of the Microsoft Connect event taking place online November 15 -17. Kafka Gets KSQL JDBC Driver Thursday 16 November There's a new JDBC driver that provides standard access to Apache Kafka via JDBC API. The current version connects to the KSQL engine to perform queries to Kafka and then, the engine translates those requests to Kafka requests. The Capstone, this is what it has all been leading up to.This is where you're set free to design your own project and utilize your own ideas, albeit always within the boundaries set by the specifications. In the first of a series of articles about the development of computing languages, we look at the struggle to create the first high level languages and how Fortran, which turned 60 this year, set a standard.
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