Getting started with a new chapter in life is accompanied by failures and mistakes. And something as technical as programming can be frustrating for newbies, not because it's as tough as grinding stones but because newbies are prone to making mistakes and repeating them.      

Comments - the simplest of all programming statements and yet at the same time the most difficult of all. Why is it we all find it so hard to write useful comments? Comments are hard.

During yesterday's keynote at Microsoft Build, Satya Nadella revealed that Microsoft is harnessing the power of OpenAI's GPT-3 technology to generate code from natural language input. Is this a breakthrough that will change our relationship to code?

We have heard this sort of thing before. Now it's Michigan that is planning a bill to allow computer languages to count as foreign languages for the purpose of high school graduation. Is this another big misunderstanding? The answer is yes and no.

... with the Error Handling Spring Boot Starter library. We look at a  project that improves on the default Spring boot error handling for REST APIs.

If you want to learn Python you have plenty of options. Joining a MOOC, an online course where you work at you own pace, is a great choice but the cost could quickly mount up. This is where Coursera Plus, Coursera's subscription that provides access to around 90% of its courses, seems like a really good idea.

At last week’s I/O Google unveiled DevLibrary, to add to its already wide range of resources for developers. The difference this time is that it's a platform intended to show off projects and tutorials that might otherwise go undiscovered.

Version 1.10 of Deno, the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime from the creator of Node.js, has been released, with improvements including support for the Web Storage API and shared WASM memory.

I have long thought that the real goal of VR is the full "holodeck" experience but this is tough. Now we have a floor that can change to make WYSIWYS - What You See Is What You Step - real.

Perhaps the most exciting news from Google I/O is that Google and Samsung are collaborating on a unified platform that combines features from Samsung's Tizen Operating System with Google's Wear OS to create a smartwatch that can compete with Apple's.

Pyston v2.2, the latest version of the high-performance Python implementation originally developed by cloud storage provider Dropbox, has been taken back to an open source model.

Android development seems to be in the hands of a leaderless team - or at least a team that has no idea where it is going. Google I/O is always time to announce new things, but as far as Android programmers are concerned all we get is more, and more and more. With Version 1 of Jetpack scheduled for July, what is the current state?

Facebook has open sourced Cinder, Instagram's internal production version of CPython 3.8. Cinder has been developed to improve Python performance, and is now available as a Facebook incubator project.