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As an example of building a simple app using the ConstraintLayout and the Layout Editor, let's build a Calculator App. Here's how to do it in Kotlin, in an extract from my published book Android Programming in Kotlin: Starting With An App. 
Python has a standard GUI framework - Tkinter - but most Python programmers don't really get to grips with it because they tend to use the command line. In this article we take a look at how a Tkinter program differs from a standard Python program and how to organize things around a GUI. 
Employment company Dice has been trying to be helpful. They have made a list of five languages that they predict are headed for extinction. We agree with three of them and suggest substitutes for the other two. 
The August edition of MSDN Magazine carries an announcement that will come as a blow not only to its current subscribers, but to all those who have read its articles online. It is ceasing publication and the very final issue will be published in November. 
There is currently a huge demand for data scientists, which is a top-trending job with attractive salaries. But what knowledge and skills are employers looking for? 
It is ironic that our best hope of understanding natural intelligence might be to enlist the help of artificial intelligence. Google has just reported mapping the entire brain of a fruit fly using neural networks to do the processing. This is a big leap for fly kind. 
Better support for promisification is one of the improvements to the latest release of Electron, the open source framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS 
The fourth and final course of Coursera's TensorFlow Specialization is now available, with modules on sequences, time series and prediction. Coursera also has two other new Specializations in related areas. 
GauGAN - yes it's an artistic Generative Adversarial Network with a cute name - can draw a landscape that you specify in very general terms. It is so good it just won two awards at this year's SIGGRAPH. Is this where art is heading? 
The challenge is specified as a calculation that you have to implement. It is easy to understand and, if it can be done in a reasonable time, it will make blockchains much more efficient. 
The ISO C++ Committee has decided what features will be included in the next C++ standard, with many improvements and new features including modules, concepts and coroutines. C++ 20 is due to be published by February 2020. 
PayPal has made HERA, its H igh E fficiency R eliable A ccess to data stores, open source. Hera is a data access gateway that PayPal uses to scale database access for hundreds of billions of SQL queries per day. 
Facebook has announced updated versions of two APIs for developers - Graph and Marketing. Changes to the new versions include improvements to managing business assets, ad creation, and Facebook Ad Insights. 
Plotly.py has been updated with improvements including an offline only mode and the inclusion of Plotly Express. Plotly.py is a Python data visualization framework best known for being used for the graphs and maps for the Dash analytical web applications framework.