Regular expressions are another example of a little language - expressive yes but not Turing complete. This is an extract from my book Trick of the Mind which explores what it is to be a programmer.

In the conference season, developers face the perennial problem of getting from one hotel to another to meet colleagues. How good is your ability to write procedures to find shortest distance in a city block setting.  Let's look at how the team at International Storm Door & Software set out the problem of Taxicab Geometry.

As the demand for "entry-level" programmers declines, established university Computer Science (CS) departments are facing a shortfall of students. How should they adapt their admission policies and what should high school students aspiring to a career in software development do to respond to the era of generative AI.

The CISA and the NSA are urging us to adopt memory-safe languages (MSLs) for the sake of cybersecurity. You probably think they mean Rust but things aren't as clear cut as you might expect.

Google has released a new Python client library for Data Commons based on the V2 REST API. They say the new library enhances how data developers can make use of Data Commons.

Deno has faced a setback in its attempt to get Oracle to relinquish the JavaScript Trademark. The US Patents Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) dismissed Deno's fraud claim which is one the three strands of its case against Oracle. Deno focus going forward is the other two - genericness and abandonment.

Parasoft has updated its C/C++ Test software with an AI-powered documentation assistant, along with complete support for MISRA C:2025 and auto-suppression of equivalent violations. C/C++ Test can be used for static analysis and unit testing of C and C++ code.

Rust 1.88 has been released with support for naked functions and for Let chains. In addtion, from now on, Cargo will automatically run garbage collection on the cache in its home directory.

Researchers who break ciphers for fun have been talking about how they broke the coded letters of Mary Queen of Scots using a combination of computer algorithms, linguistic analysis and manual codebreaking techniques.

Swift has long lost its position as a proprietary language, but what could Apple be thinking as it makes its move to the Android platform?

This course, provided by Microsoft, is based on a Github repository full of invaluable information that introduces MCP, Model Context Protocol, to beginners.

Ktor 3.2 has been released with new modules for dependency injection and HTMX. This version also adds support for Gradle version catalogs.

The Eclipse Foundation has announced the general availability of the Jakarta EE 11 Platform. This release has modernised Test Compatibility Kits (TCKs), and introduces the Jakarta Data specification, along with major updates to the existing specifications.

Author: Nick Morgan
Publisher: No Starch
Date: March 2024
Pages: 376
ISBN: 978-1718502260
Audience: Developers wanting to learn JavaScript
Rating: 4
Reviewer: Ian Elliot
JavaScript is still a very important language, so why not a crash course?

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