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More of our ongoing in-depth coverage of Udacity's Java Web Developer Nanodegree Program, an upskilling program that will enhance your career prospects as a Java web developer, we move onto the third lecture in the series, "Web Services and APIs" .

Inheritance is a simple idea, until you try to make use of it. What's a virtual method? How do you use override and new? Its tricky when you look at the details.

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Google Announces New Machine Learning Services
02 Sep | Kay Ewbank

New services, aimed at data scientists and ML engineers, to simplify Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) have been announced by Google. 

This momentous event happened in a competition organized by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to test autonomous air-to-air combat systems. Should we be surprised by yet another indication of AI superiority?

There's a new version of D3.js, the JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. Improvements in D3 v6 include a move to using native collections (Map and Set), as well as the ability to accept iterables.

Google has introduced Google Cloud App Modernization Program (Google CAMP) based on Google's "experience of driving application delivery at speed and scale".

With tensions mounting in the struggle between Epic and Apple over the 30% App Store tax, Facebook stirs it further by trying to tell users that Apple is taking 30% - Apple tells Facebook it can't do that.

Open source downloads are on course to reach 1.5 trillion in 2020, an all-time high. At the same time the incidence of cyber attacks actively targeting open source software projects has increased by 430%. How do enterprise respond to the deluge of vulnerabilities and what influences their success?

If you, like a lot of people, have a box full of last year's Android phones and can't think of what to do with them - why not build a robot? They have more power than desktop of a few years ago and are quite capable of running AI software. Even better you can be up and running for $50.

It's 25 years since Microsoft launched Windows 95 - how time flies when you're having fun. Unlike the major razzmatazz for the original launch, the anniversary celebrations have been decidedly low key.

Up until now, the Nanodegrees offered by Udacity's School of Cloud Computing have related to Amazon Web Services. Now there's a program focused on the alternative big cloud platform, Microsoft Azure. 

Gitpod, a Kubernetes application that provides a collaborative development environments in your browser, is now open source. Coding in Gitpod uses Eclipse Theia, which is similar to VS Code. Gitpod is also tightly integrated with GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket.

The dispute between Epic and Apple is going to run and run and part of the problem is minimizing the damage while the dispute remains unresolved. Epic is directing mobile-using Fortnite afficianados who want to participate in the new Season to do so on Android.

Books of the Week

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Full Review  

• Data Structures and Program Design Using Java (Mercury Learning)

Reviewer: Alex Armstrong; Rating: 3 out of 5

Alex Armstrong had previously reviewed the C++ version of this title, Data Structures and Program Design Using C++ and We also have Harry Fairhead's review of Data Structures And Program Design Using C. 

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• Write Great Code, Volume 3: Engineering Software
  (No Starch Press)
  
• Exercises in Programming Style, 2nd Edition 
  (Routledge, Chapman & Hall)
• Analogia: The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  

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• JavaScript Jems: The Amazing Parts by Mike James 

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