Python takes a unique and very logical approach to basic data structures. As the next step up from numbers it has the sequence. Find out how it all works in this extract from Programmer's Python: Everything is Data .

When working with containerized applications, understanding Pods is crucial because they are the entities that Kubernetes manipulates when it comes to scheduling workloads, scaling, and handling different aspects of application lifecycle management.

Yes, it's an Epic win and good news for programmers. Epic Games has been leading the battle against the app store since 2020 and essentially lost against Apple, but won against Google. It's like killing the little dragon while the big one roasts you.

The results of the latest survey of Go developers has been released with insights into how they consider AI-powered tools might be useful to them.

This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements and, thanks to CRaC, faster warm up times.

The MongoDB team has announced the general availability release of Atlas Vector Search and Atlas Search Nodes.

SDKs for Kotlin and Rust have been released, almost simultaneously, by Amazon Web Services, both ready for production use.

Google has announced that the latest version of Android Studio, Hedgehog is now stable. The main changes are that the IntelliJ platform has been upgraded to 2023.1, with features designed to improve app performance and battery life, make it easier to upgrade applications to the latest Android version, and make it faster to develop using Jetpack Compose.

If you are looking for a programmer present this holiday season, there is one book, or set of books, that should be top of any list... Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming.

The winners of the 2023 Call for Code competition have been announced, with prizes going to team AGNO, Phyto and team Synergy Squad, all of which used technologies like IBM watsonx and IBM Environmental Intelligence Suite, to address agricultural issues ranging from contaminated soil and crop management to food waste.

Tomorrow marks the 117th anniversary of the birth of Grace Hopper. Considered "the first lady of software" she was the original figurehead chosen for Computer Science Education Week, which is timed to coincide with her birthday. To celebrate the date we have a cartoon comic that summarizes her story.

The Eclipse Foundation has launched a dataspace working group with the intention of 'fostering global innovation in trusted data sharing'.

JetBrains has announced that its AI-powered coding tool is now generally available for its IDEs. The tool was announced earlier in the year but until now has been on limited access.

Author: Robert C. Martin
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Date: September 2023
Pages: 384
ISBN: 978-0138176396
Rating: 4.5
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

This book sets out to explain the principles, patterns and practices of functional design, and why functional programming is a good thing.

This book is a guide to "Pythonic" programming, a collection of best practices, ways of working, and nuances that are easy to miss, especially when ingrained habits are borrowed from other programming languages. Author David Mertz presents concrete and concise examples of various misunderstandings, pitfalls, and bad habits in action.

Bayesian optimization helps pinpoint the best configuration for your machine learning models with speed and accuracy. In this hands-on guide, Quan Nguyen shows how to put its advanced techniques into practice. The book shows how to optimize hyperparameter tuning, A/B testing, and other aspects of the machine learning process by applying cutting-edge Bayesian techniques.

Subtitled "Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets", this book takes a behind-the-scenes look at the tactics Facebook used to grow its business, and how it altered the way we connect online. Expanding on “The Facebook Files,” his award-winning series for The Wall Street Journal, reporter Jeff Horwitz lays out the architecture of Facebook’s failures, and what the company knew (and often disregarded) about its societal impact.