This Month's iProgrammer
The Core
There are now three sub-sections in this area of the site where we cover topics that are at the heart of programming. We've added several articles about working with bitmaps in WPF and there are now articles to help you get started with PHP
Coming soon to The Core: PHP basic control structures
Babbage's Bag
We have added many more articles discussing the fundamental ideas and theories of computing - from hexadecimal and the mod function to an algorithm for discovering the median in a data set and computational complexity. We also explain the Turing Test and the advent of the Chatterbots.
Coming soon: Advanced Data Structures
History
Our latest informal biographies are on the Watsons, father and son, who presided over IBM as it entered the computer age, Alan Sugar who brought us the Amstrad PC clone and Doug Engelbart who invented the mouse. We also have a new article on computing technology long before the computer itself was invented.
As well as looking at the people and the machines who have featured prominently in the history of computing we have now added articles about the delevelopment of computer languages from the initial interpreters and compilers onwards. So far we've looked at the 1950s, the '60s and the 70's.
Coming soon: The rise of Object-Oriented languages in the 1980s; Ritchie and Thompson - Unix and C
Swift's Spreadsheets
To mark the beginning of the new decade Janet Swift has added a spreadsheet that produces a monthly calendar and if you want a personal forecast take a look at her biorhythms spreadsheet.
Coming soon: More about dates and times and a chart to help you watch your weight
Book Reviews
Reviews of books by and for programmers and other IT experts are a vital part of this site and members of our team continue to read new titles and share their opinions at a prodigious rate. The latest reviews are listed at the left of this page but if you want a book on a specific topic go to the Book Reviews content page.
The Stone Tapes
Given our interest in print books it isn't surprising that we have strong opinions about ebooks and the impact of the Internet is having on traditional publishing and communication. Recent blogs have discussed the pricing of ebooks and the shortcoming's of the web's "pull publishing".
eBooks
We have posted Chapter Four of Deep C# on the tricky topic of Casting and Chapter Three of Financial Functions on Effective Interest Rates
Coming soon: Artificial Intelligence - a new addition to our ebookshelf;
Deep C# - Nested Classes
Financial Functions - Future Value
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