C doesn't do exceptions but Python does. This means we have to fit in with Python's way of implementing exceptions. This is an extract from the latest title in the I Programmer Library that helps you combine the speed and power of C with the versatility and ease-of-programming of Python.

Do you know binary? There are only 10 possible answers and even if it's a 1 it's still fun to consider the wider concepts.

People have assumed that Large Language Models have passed the Turing test, but have they? And if not how do they fail?

Stack Overflow's latest survey also reveals that 4 in 5 developers are considering a job move, either for a better salary or out of curiosity. Fewer developers indicated that learning opportunities are an important factor to stay at their current job than the last two years.

Lightbend has updated Akka, its distributed computing platform, with a new programming model that enables developers to create applications that are platform agnostic to work across cloud and edge environments. Lightbend specializes in cloud-native microservices frameworks.

MDN has another initiative to get developers up-to-date with the skills the industry looks for when looking to hire front-end web developers.

Deno 1.37 has been released with new support for Jupyter notebooks. The team has also announced a new tool called Deno Queues. Deno is the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime from the creator of Node.js.

Geany 2.0 has been released 18 years after the original version. This release makes it simpler to create projects from existing directories with sources.

There's a new initiative to teach coding in Python to kids aged 11 to 15. Having been endorsed by Pope Francis, the online program is being promoted as "Code With Pope" to appeal to Catholics across the globe.

JetBrains annual JavaScript Day, the third of its free, online events for developers interested in languages and frameworks in the JavaScript ecosystem takes place on November 2nd. We look at this year's line up of talks.

A massive Youtube playlist features all 126 talks from the recent Devoxx Belgium Conference days event. If you feel spoilt for choice, here's some help in deciding where to start.

GitLab 16.5 has been released with compliance standards adherence reports and merge request target branch rules. GitLab, the web-based repository manager for Git

The OpenSSF Package Analysis team has released a Malicious Packages repository, which they describe as an open source system for collecting and publishing cross-ecosystem reports of malicious packages.

Author: Mike McGrath
Publisher: In Easy Steps
Date: April 2022
Pages: 192
ISBN: 978-1840789713
Audience: Developers wanting to learn C++
Reviewer: Mike James
This is the 6th edition of a slim book on C++ . Can you really learn C++ in easy steps?

In this book, Professor Seth J. Chandler guides intermediate users of Wolfram from simple cases to data in the wild and shows how each can be fed into the full range of Wolfram Language functionality. It's both a conceptual and practical approach filled with annotated examples. The book shows how to organize or reduce data in the Wolfram Language similarly to the way one might use SQL, pandas in Python, or dplyr in R's tidyverse. It also shows how to simplify data processing and go beyond what is possible with other tools using the Query function.

In this "Definitive Guide" to designing, deploying, and managing Azure storage services for maximum performance, scalability, and value, Avinash Valiramani shows how to make the most of Azure storage tools and services to reduce downtime, avoid unnecessary costs, simplify management, and maintain performance no matter how large the environment scales. He includes coverage of Azure blob, file, queue storage, managed disks, Data Share, and Data Box.

This book tells the story of Thomas Watson Jr., who Ralph Watson McElvenny and Marc Wortman argue is a figure more important to the creation of the modern world than Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, and Morgan. Nearly fifty years into IBM’s existence, Thomas Watson Jr. undertook the biggest gamble in business history when he “bet the farm” on the creation of the IBM System/360, the world’s first fully integrated and compatible mainframe computer.