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Catch up with everything that appeared on I Programmer last week. Our digest gives links to news coverage together with the new book review of the week and additions to Book Watch. This week we have an extract from Harry Fairhead's book Fundamental C and Ian Elliot presents a JavaScript Jem. To receive this digest automatically by email, sign up for our weekly newsletter.
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This extract, from my new book on programming C in an IoT context, explains the basics of numeric representation including what one's-complement and two's-complement are all about.
Sometimes it is useful for an object to have a default value so that it can be used in an expression such as object+1 and object+"hello world". In JavaScript this is really easy and it is an important general principle.
A survey conducted by IDG on behalf of Appian looks at the pressures imposed by emerging new technologies and the ways in which low code can help. 
There are some good things about having one dominant browser and there are some very bad things. Google's long past the "do no evil days", but is it really this evil now? It is claimed that Chrome is using its dominance to control the web. 
With the ink hardly dry on the pages of the EU Ethical AI Guidelines manifest, a free online course exploring the issues they raise is already in prospect on the openSAP platform. 
W3C and WHATWG have today signed an agreement that will allow for the development of a single version of the HTML and DOM specifications. This effectively reverses a split that took place seven years ago.
The demand for Data Scientists is still on the rise - and so are their salaries. Udacity's School of Data Science now offers seven Nanodegree programs and all of them start again this week. If you miss this datethe oppportunity will come around again in a few months. 
OpenAI is currently reviewing applications for the next cohort of OpenAI Fellows, a program which offers 6-month apprenticeships in AI research at OpenAI to those who do not have a formal background in the field. 
In response to demand expressed by its community, Arduino has initiated the Arduino Certification Program to officially certify Arduino users, and confirm their expertise in key areas. 
Just when you thought it couldn't get any creepier, researchers at Samsung have managed to use a neural network to create realistic talking heads from a single photo of the subject. You really cannot rely on what you see any more.
The Wolfram Engine, which powers the Language as well as Wolfram's desktop and cloud products, is being released as free for developers (with limitations) so that it can be tried out and bundled into their software engineering projects. 
Glassdoor has revealed that the highest paid entry level job is that of Data Scientist. Software Engineer is in second place and UX Designer, Java Developer and Software Developer are also in the top 10. 
GitHub has announced a new way to financially support open source developers. To jump start this scheme, GitHub is going to match all contributions up to $5,000 during a developer’s first year in GitHub Sponsors. 
Amazon has provided a free self-paced skill-building course that offers step-by-step guidance on how to build a high-quality Alexa skill from start to finish. It has also announced the expansion of In-Skill Purchasing, making Alexa a more attractive platform from the point of view of any developer wanting to make money.