Discover what goes into coding a Python extension module and see how fast C is when compared to Python by using it to compute Pi.

The team of I Programmer book reviewers read a lot of programming titles, and our programmer's bookshelf section provides a guide to those that we thought were among the best, with recommendations of the books you might find helpful at different stages in your personal development.

It's that time of year - a new Python is available for us to use rather than just test out. Python 3.12 isn't obviously groundbreaking, but it could be if the next release enthusiastically builds on its new features.

With the growing adoption of AI-based tools across the board, the question is whether our jobs are at risk. It is reassuring to know that IBM's CEO Arvind Krishna says he doesn't intend to lose any programmers because of AI - indeed he intends to hire more.

The MongoDB company has announced updates to improve the developer experience. The changes include updates to Atlas and a new edge platform.

Smithy is an open source project by AWS with which you can model your APIs, generate code and documentation for clients and servers, as well as other artifacts, in many programming languages.

Microsoft has announced changes to its Azure database services that will see support dropped for MariaDB and a free tier added for the preview of Azure SQL databases.

News from the recent Open Source Summit Europe is that long term support for the Linux kernel is being reduced from 6 years to 2 years. How disruptive is this likely to be?

DynIBar aka Neural Dynamic Image-Based Rendering is a new approach to synthesizing novel views from mobile phone video footage. Not only does the technique eliminate blur and shake, it can even do bullet time effects to freeze time while sweeping the camera around to highlight a dramatic moment.

Secure Code Warrior is to host its third annual Devlympics secure coding competition on October 17-18, 2023. Devlympics is a free tournament of coding challenges for developers of all levels of expertise.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Sustainable Web Design Community Group has released a draft report on sustainable web design. The Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) 1.0 set out ways to design and implement digital products and services that put people and the planet first.

Despite strong suggestions that a Pi 5 would be delayed until 2024, the Pi 5 has been announced and shipments are promised in the last week in October.

It's the the one-year anniversary of Wolfi, the first community Linux undistro focused on supply chain security. A lot has happened during that year. Let's find out what.

Author: Eric Matthes
Publisher: No Starch Press
Pages: 552
ISBN: 978-1718502703
Audience: People wanting to learn Python
Level: Introductory/Intermediate
Audience: Not the complete beginner
Rating: 4
Reviewer: Alex Armstrong
To reach a third edition this book must be doing something right...

This book tells Python programmers everything they need to know about the C API, which is what you use to create a C extension for Python. Mike James explains how to create C extensions, and shows how to use this to make C-based applications and libraries available to Python. He also looks at how to convert Python functions to C to speed things up, and how to work with modules, objects, types and threads.

Fully updated to ASP.NET Core 7.0, in this book Microsoft MVP Andrew Lock shows how to use C# and .NET skills to build cross-platform web applications. This revised bestseller reveals the latest .NET patterns, including minimal APIs and minimal hosting.

Subtitled, "Navigating and Influencing a World Controlled by Powerful New Technologies", this book examines the emerging technologies and tools that are starting to revolutionize our world, and looks at how we have arrived at this point, and who holds the reins of these formidable technologies, mostly without any supervision.