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JavaScript Canvas - Introduction To Bitmaps
Ian Elliot

Canvas lets you work with bitmaps as well as generate custom drawings. In this extract from a chapter in my new book on JavaScript Graphics we look at the basics of how to transfer bitmaps to Canvas.

LINQ isn’t just for SQL, it's for languages. Find out how LINQ works at the most basic level and how it can be useful as a general language construct even if you aren't using a database.

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How To Teach Computer Science - It's The Programming Stupid
01 Jul | Mike James

A new article in ACM Inroads describes all that is wrong with secondary school level CS education. Many of us outsiders probably knew this all along.

An analysis of almost ninety thousand App Inventor Projects reveals that while some reach over 60,000 blocks most are comparatively modest. Compared to Scratch projects, those based on App Inventor lack loops and conditionals and are predominantly event driven. 

The results of the Eclipse Foundation's 2020 Jakarta EE Developer Survey shows significantly increased growth in the use of Jakarta EE 8 and interest in cloud-native Java overall.

GutHub has released Super Linter, with the intention of making it easier to prevent broken code getting into your master branches.

A  new microcredential program at postgraduate level will run for the first time in July on the FutureLearn platform. Created in collaboration with Amazon’s AWS Academy, it prepares students to sit the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification – the price of which is included in the cost of the course. 

Apache Hudi has been adopted as a top-level project. The open source data lake technology for stream processing on top of Apache Hadoop is already being used at organizations including Alibaba, Tencent, and Uber, and is supported as part of Amazon EMR by AWS.

While we are well passed "peak drone" as far as news goes, there is still the occasional new development that can make you sit up and take notice. Drones that do acrobatics - nothing new - but drones that learn to do acrobatics is another matter. 

Outsourcing mobile development is an obvious solution for those companies that need to build an app. Here are six good reasons to convince them to do so. 

This course raises the eternal question about the relation between programming math. "Do I need Math to become a Programmer?" Let's find out! 

The open source JavaScript linting utility ESLint has been updated with a major new version followed by a couple of minor updates. ESLint 7 adds support for ES2020, removes support for Node.js version 8, and has a number of improvements to the developer experience.

The GNOME Foundation has settled its lawsuit with Leigh M Rothschild and Rothschild Patent Imaging. Rothschild Patent Imaging agreed that, for all of their patents and future patents, they will not sue any user or developer of software under an Open Source Initiative-approved license (and their updated versions).