The books in this collection are written for languages that can be described as functional - to a larger or lesser extent. Functional programming aims to remove the state and mutability out of programming and make it more like static math. In other words, it attempts to freeze time out of programming in the same way math does.

QuickSort was published in July 1961 and so is celebrating its 60th birthday.  QuickSort is the most elegant of algorithms and every programmer should study it. It is also subtle and this often means it is incorrectly implemented and incorrectly explained. Let's find out how it works and how to get it right.

News that the non-profit MOOC provider edX  has been sold to 2U, a for-profit online course provider, for $800 million seems to signal the end of a remarkable era. What does it mean for existing edX courses and students  and what can we expect from the next iteration of an educational non-profit from MIT and Harvard?

GitHub and OpenAI have a new tool described as "your AI pair programmer". It's not quite that good, but it is a view into the future of programming and an important step in the right direction.

Looking to understand Kubernetes and cloud native development? Here is a free and continuously updated online collection of resources on everything Kubernetes, by Red Hat.

Scala 3 has been released. The new version has been eight years in development, and according to the developers is a complete overhaul of the Scala language. Many aspects of the type-system have been changed, meaning that type-inference and overload resolution are much improved.

A revamped Microsoft Store will include Android Apps downloadable from the Amazon Appstore. A change that change comes into effect today, July 28, 2021, is that app developers who can use their own or a third party commerce platform don’t need to pay Microsoft any fee and can keep 100% of their revenue.

GitLab, the web-based repository manager for Git, has been updated with improvements designed to give teams an alternative to maintaining DIY DevOps chains. GitLab supports concurrent devops and issue-tracking, with tools for software development, deployment, and project management.

Looking at the photo of a waterfall you are often convinced the water is moving. Now researchers at the University of Washington have developed a new deep learning method that can animate portions of a photograph, turning it into a video - and the result is just the cascade you would expect.

Amazon has announced AWS BustBust as the world’s first global competition for Java and Python developers to collectively fix 1 million bugs and save $100M in technical debt with the help of machine-learning provided by Amazon CodeGuru. 

Blackbird, an integrated learning platform featuring a custom version of JavaScript, specifically designed for use with middle school and high school students, has just joined the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program.

MariaDB Community Server 10.6 has been released with more JSON functions, extended Oracle compatibility in the form of PL/SQL, and atomic DDL supporting MariaDB's multiple storage engines to "add insurance for bad database days" according to the company. 

Rust 1.53 has been released with new support for the use of IntoIterator for arrays. This allows developers to iterate over arrays by value.