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If you want to keep up with what's important from the point of view of the developer, you can rely on the IProgrammer team to sift through the news to select items that are of interest and to gather and review the books you might want to read. This week's articles explore Basic Structs in C and a history article about the creators of the language, Ritchie & Thompson. To receive this digest automatically by email, sign up for our weekly newsletter.
April 25 - May 1, 2019
Book Review of the WeekMike James awards a rating of 4 out of 5 in a detailed review of this introductory book and concludes: New Listings in Book Watch
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The struct is perhaps the more sophisticated of the two “native” data structures that C has, the other being the array. It is true to say that with an array and a struct you can do just about anything, but to do anything safely you need to know exactly how structs work. This extract, from my new book on programming C in an IoT context, explains the basics of structs without confusion. 
Dennis Ritchie and Kenneth Thompson produced Unix and C, both groundbreaking foundations of computing today. Here is an account of how it all happened. 
The U.S. Supreme Court has again requested the views of the U.S. solicitor general with regard to Google's petition asking for a judicial review of the copyright issues stemming from the Oracle v Google Lawsuit. 
Since 2017 the Mozilla Foundation has published an annual look at what is happening on the internet today, and how it is impacting us for good or bad. The 2019 Internet Health Report is now available as a website and there's a Short Version (pdf) for reading offline. 
Google has started the process of open sourcing ZetaSQL, a SQL front-end that consists of a parser and analyzer. It is designed to work with a variety of back ends, and could be a rival for Apache Calcite in the JVM ecosystem. 
There are new versions of Wolfram language and Mathematica. Release 12 offers improvements in support for chemistry, geometry, numerical uncertainty and database integration. We highlight just a few of the many improvements and additions.
Microsoft has updated PWABuilder, its open source tool for converting Web applications to Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). which act more like native desktop/mobile apps with the help of several technologies. 
Sorting algorithms are fundamental to computer science and writing one of your own will teach you a lot. There are many different approaches to sorting - but one thing they share in common is that they are better understood when visualized. 
Nope, not a misprint - it really is core memory and it really works, even if it is only 32 bits! 
At the Spark +AI Summit taking place this week in San Francisco, Databricks announced that it has open sourced its Delta Lake storage layer, which handles the stage where data is brought into an organization's data lake. 
Based on Iodide, we now have Pyodide which allows a Python interpreter to run inside the browser and create living documents there, thus bringing data science to the browser. 
WebThings just graduated from being in an experimental phase to something more serious, but this sort of home IoT is a tough nut to crack. Can we trust Mozilla to be there after we invest time and effort? 
Red Hat is taking over the stewardship of OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11 from Oracle. This means Red Hat will look after aspects such as security patches and bug fixes for the two OpenJDK releases. Updates may still come from Oracle, Red Hat, or other providers.