Comprehend comprehensions in this extract from the new book Programmer's Python: Everything is Data by Mike James. This is the second in his "Something Completely Different" series which looks at what makes Python special.

Selectors are what jQuery uses to pick out particular objects in the DOM. While this might start out simply enough, it can appear to be complicated in more testing examples. The trick is to always remember what the selector is doing.

The digital transformation that is currently in full swing means a huge demand for developers with cloud computing skills. Cloud native is changing the way software development is done and here we look at online training for acquiring the requisite know-how.

Matter is the new one-system-to-rule-them-all IoT protocol and surprisingly IKEA is the first to create a working device that you can buy - well in October. What is Matter all about and why does it matter?

John Kemeny, born in Hungary on May 31st 1926, was the co-author of BASIC, standing for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Although it is thought of as the popular language of the 1980's, it originated in 1964 at Dartmouth College in New England to introduce computing to undergraduates studying liberal arts and social sciences. 

The Eclipse Foundation is opening an online marketplace that will give developers access to standard Java binaries from multiple sources. The creation of the Adoptium Marketplace is intended to provide a vendor-neutral home for the Java ecosystem.

The five co-creators of the Go language, Russ Cox, Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, Ian Lance Taylor and Ken Thompson, have co-authored a paper in this month's edition of Communications of the ACM in which they address the question, Why has Go grown in popularity when so many other language projects have not? 

Microsoft has announced plans for an end-to-end Arm native toolchain including full Visual Studio 2022, Visual Studio Code, Visual C++, Windows Subsystem for Linux, Windows Subsystem for Android and .NET. 

Team V Bionic from Saudi Arabia was crowned the Imagine Cup World Champions at Microsoft Build. Just before the winning team was announced it was revealed that, in honor of it being the 20th Anniversary of the competition, Microsoft was awarding a further $20,000 so that the two runner up teams would also have funding to take their projects forward.

Carla Gomes of  Cornell University has been named as the 2021 recipient of the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award for her work in Computational Sustainability and for foundational contributions to Artificial Intelligence.

On May 27, 1957 MIT shut down its Whirlwind I computer, after almost a decade of service. The world's first real-time digital computer, Whirlwind was the first to use magnetic-core memory, a breakthrough made by Jay Forrester.

The third preview of .NET 7 has been released with support for Native AOT (Ahead-of-time) compilation. Now open source, .NET was created from a combination of .NET Framework and .NET Core, and this latest incarnation aims to improve observability, startup times, codegen, and GC regions in addition to native AOT compilation.

GitLab, the web-based repository manager for Git, has grown into a DevOps platform designed to combine the ability to develop, secure, and operate software in a single application. Highlights of its new version include WYSIWYG for wikis and container scanning in all tiers.