Dictionaries are the key data structure in Python and you cannot avoid them. Find out how it all works in this extract from Programmer's Python: Everything is Data .

Inconvenient though they may be, fractions are the real stuff of numbers and to work with them we need to know about floating point numbers ...

What is to the best way to improve the accuracy of the solutions provided by chatbots based on large language models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s PaLM 2? The surprising answer is to use the prompt "Take a deep breath and work on this problem step-by-step".

LiveCodes is a groundbreaking code playground with unique features. And it is free too. Currently in Beta. Let's look into it.

Microsoft has released version 8 of the Windows Community Toolkit. The developers describe this as a huge update with an array of improvements and features, including new galleries and a major reworking of the way the toolkit is built and published from top-to-bottom.

The Eclipse Foundation's 2023 Jakarta EE Developer Survey confirmed that Jakarta EE is the basis for the top frameworks used for building cloud native applications. Having shipped in September 2022, Jakarta EE 10 usage had reached 17% by the time of this survey.

Kotlin, the open-source Java alternative from JetBrains, is back in the Top 20 of the TIOBE Index, displacing Julia which lost the 20th position after only one month and is now down at 25th place.

Oracle and Microsoft have jointly announced an expanded partnership that will make it easier to run Oracle on Azure.

Which is better - traditional optimization theory, human pilots or AI reinforcement learning? The answer is, of course, AI but perhaps not for the reasons you might suppose.

The GNU System is about to turn 40 and to mark the occasion the Free Software Foundation has organized two events.  There's a family hackday in Boston, USA taking place on October 1st and a hacker meeting in Biel, Switzerland, taking place on September 27th when it is planned to have 40 release announcements, discussions or presentations in one day!

The talks presented at the 2023 PyCon Australia and SciPy are now available as YouTube playlists. Topics ranged from Data cleaning and visualization to APIs, GUIs and Parallelism.

Bun, the new JavaScript runtime, is now available in a 1.0 production-ready version, according to the developers, who have also announced an experimental Windows version.

pg_later is an interesting project and extension built by Tembo which enables Postgres to execute queries asynchronously.  Fire your query - but don't forget to check later for the result.

Author: Mike McGrath
Publisher: Easy Steps
Date: April 2022
Pages: 192
ISBN: 978-1840789737
Audience: C# developers
Rating: 5
Reviewer: Mike James
An easy guide to C# - what could be better.

The AWK Programming Language 2nd Ed (Addison-Wesley)

In this update of the classic Awk book, the creators of the language, Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan and Peter J. Weinberger, show you what Awk can do and teach you how to use it effectively. This book aims to teach effective usage of Awk, and showcases practical Awk applications, from personal programming to data analysis and data manipulation.

React Quickly, 2nd Ed (Manning)

This book teaches the skills for building React applications.In this fully revised second edition, Morten Barklund and Azat Mardan introduce functional components, React hooks, and static site generators. The book contains 80 practical examples that put React into action. This new second edition has been completely rewritten to cover the latest developments in the React framework.

Virtual Natives (Wiley)

This book's subtitle is "How a New Generation is Using Technology to Revolutionize Work, Play, and Culture" and it introduces the Virtual Native cohort of kids under 15 and their mindset. Catherine D. Henry and Leslie Shannon decipher their socio-cultural and economic experiences, and unpack their expectations of companies looking to engage, market, or employ them. The authors look at how the group are navigating everything from AI to Augmented and virtual reality, gaming, blockchain and Web3 in easy, accessible language.