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Catch up with the talking points of the I Programmer week. Beside the news we have reviews of two books with programming in their titles, another part of Mike James Core book on C and a reminder of why we use the term "Core" in a look back at the life of Jay Forrester.
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November 17-23, 2016
Book Reviews
Giving this book a rating of 4 out of a possible 5 stars, MIke James concluded:
A good general, but slow, introduction to Shell scripting and if you are going to graduate to doing really useful things with it you will need a follow-on book. If you program in any other language then you need a more advanced and faster -paced book to start with.
Awarding only a 2-star rating Harry Fairhead explained:
Robot Programming has the feel of a book that is intended to be used to teach a course without the students ever getting their hands on a real robot or the components to make a robot. It would have been so much better if the book had selected two robot types or models and used them as specific examples. This is not a book to buy if you actually want to build or program a robot because there are so many challenges that it will not help you with at all.
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Google Expands AI Research In Montreal Wednesday 23 NovemberGoogle has announced new and extended grants for the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, under the direction of Yoshua Bengio. Adding to Montreal becoming a hub for AI and technological innovation, Google is also opening a deep learning and AI research group in its office there. |
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SQL Server on Linux, Love or Calculated Move? Tuesday 22 NovemberFive years ago, who would have imagined Microsoft's U-turn into the arms of Linux arms, especially after Microsoft referred to Linux and Open Source being synonymous with cancer? Last week it joined the Linux Foundation as a Platinum member and SQL Server on Linux is now in public preview. |
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Complete SQL Bootcamp Course Monday 21 NovemberA SQL bootcamp that starts from the very beginning is available from Udemy. While it is based around PostgreSQL, the majority of the lectures are agnostic about the dialect of SQL you're using so could apply more generally and we have an offer that makes it worth a closer look. |
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Udacity Blitz From a Different Perspective Monday 21 NovemberUdacity has announced Blitz, a labour supply service whereby its Nanodegree "graduates" can work for clients, with the potential of getting hired afterwards. |
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PowerShell Replaces Command Prompt Monday 21 NovemberMicrosoft has replaced the long standing command prompt with PowerShell, which puts .NET at the top of the agenda even though it is as loved elsewhere in Windows. |
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Model Of ENIAC Accumulator Wins Tony Sale Award Sunday 20 NovemberA simplified model of the ENIAC accumulator built and exhibited by the Heinz-Nixdorf Museum in Padderborn, Germany, has won this year's Tony Sale award for computer conservation. |
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Google Turns Your Phone Into A Photo Scanner Saturday 19 NovemberIf you have ever taken on the task of digitizing old photos you will know that it is a tough job. Now Google has applied computational photography to make it easy with just a phone camera - you take a photo of the photo and use the new PhotoScan app. |
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Jay Forrester Dies Aged 98 Friday 18 NovemberJay Forrester. the computer pioneer who invented core memory while working on Project Whirlwind at MIT in the 1940s, and is even better known as the founder of the field of system dynamics modeling, died on November 16, 2016. |
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The Weekly Top 10: Learning about eCommerce Thursday 17 NovemberThe posts in this week's round up of items from blogs around the Internet will help you get started with eCommerce and understand better how to respond to online shopping habits. |
The Core
Fundamental C - Low Down Data Monday 21 NovemberData often occupies a low position in the mind of a programmer. It just isn't as exciting as writing the code that does something with that data. In fact nothing could be further from the truth and C in particular is a language that was designed to have data at its core - but not for the same reasons that most modern languages do. |
History
Jay Forrester and Whirlwind Friday 18 NovemberJay Forrester, who invented core memory while working on Project Whirlwind at MIT in the 1940s, died on November 16, 2016 aged 98. Discover the man who invented core memory and, indirectly, gave the Core section of IProgrammer its name. |
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