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Every day I Programmer has new material written by programmers, for programmers. This weekly digest gives a handy summary of the latest content, which this week includes an exploration of Python's Custom Attributes taken from Programmer's Python and details of how to get hands-on with logic gates without soldering, using the SmartSim simulator from hardware guy, Harry Fairhead. To receive this digest automatically by email, sign up for our weekly newsletter.
October 17 - 23, 2019
Book Review of the Week Kay Ewbank awarded a full 5-star rating to this new edition of a popular database title which brings the book up to date to cover MySQL 8 together with features such as window functions, Common Table Expressions (CTE), and roles for database security. 
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We have already looked at the idea of a get/set property and often this is sufficient for more sophisticated attribute access. However, Python also provides you with the ability to take control of how attributes are accessed – the descriptor. 
How to get hands-on with logic gates without soldering. Using the SmartSim simulator, the hardware becomes software and you can avoid burnt fingers and burned components. So let's get started. 
Google Summer of Code is widely seen as beneficial both to the participating students and to the open source organizations. Now researchers have looked into what motivates students to participate and do they continue to contribute in the long term? 
You think it would be easy to prove that a quantum computer was better than a classical computer. Google's Quantum Computer Group thinks that it has done just that, but has it? 
Today and tomorrow Nokia Bell Labs is hosting a two-day event celebrating 50 years of the Unix operating system, reflecting on Unix’s past and exploring the future of computing. Speakers and panelists include many of the original team that built Unix and designed the C programming language. 
Microsoft has open sourced a rewritten version of SandDance, its data visualization tool. The rewritten version has been reworked as an embeddable component that can be used in native JavaScript or React apps. 
This news item is interesting not just because it is a lesson to us all, but because of the way it is being reported as "Bug In Python Script ..." with the suggestion that Python is the cause of the problem. The truth is, in fact, much more interesting. 
Bazel 1.0 has been released with better integration on Windows via genrule support, as well as improvements to the handling of C++ and Java. Bazel is an open source tool that automates software building and testing. 
In a recent interview Bjarne Stroustrup advocates learning C++, the language he started to create while a PhD student in 1979. 
A better headline would have been "with one hand tied behind its back" but this robot doesn't have another hand and no back you speak of. It does however have two neural networks and can solve the cube using just one hand. What is the importance of this work? 
Stack Overflow has updated its salary calculator, a tool you can use to investigate representative salaries for the software industry based on experience level, location, education, and specific technologies. 
Google has announced its AMP framework will join the OpenJS Foundation. AMP has been open source for the last four years, but the move will make it less Google-centric. 
The latest release of Python, 3.8, is available with many new features and optimizations. Notable improvements include a walrus operator and positional-only parameters. 
GRAIL has open sourced two projects, Bigslice and Bigmachine, which enable distributed computation across large datasets using simple Golang programs.