Mozilla is a unique organization which is critical to the overall health and well being of the Internet. It also provides valuable financial support to open source organizations. For those two reasons its financial health is important. 

It is not really a joke that programming has become a matter of copy-and-paste from a variety of sources. Yes, it can save time, but when you just copy-and-paste how do you know the code works? Even a highly up-voted SO answer could, and did, have a bug.

... for any programmer unless they already have the complete work. Even if they do there is part 5 of Volume 4 hot off the press and they are unlikely to have that one.  

NVIDIA has partnered with Hackster.io in a competition that requires you to add NVIDIA hardware to an AI or robotics project. There's over $100K in prizes and one project will be selected for a special "AI Social Impact Award".

Code.org expands beyond teaching the concepts of coding. It moves on to artificial intelligence, AI. Computer Science Education Week starts today and with it Hour of Code events in schools around the world.

Today, December 9th is Día Mundial de la Informática and marks the start of Computer Science Education Week. Both these annual events commemorate Grace Hopper, who was born in New York on this day in 1906 as pioneer of Computer Science and as a teacher dedicated to sharing her understanding with young people.

We tend to think that software, and compilers in particular, are concerned with other software rather than the real world. The Carpentry Compiler is different - its target really is wood.

The holiday season is a good time to learn about computers - you have the time. But where to start? Our advice is to ignore the pudding and go for a Pi.

Every day I Programmer has new material written by programmers, for programmers. Each week our digest gives a handy summary of the latest content - daily news, the books we've reviewed or added to Book Watch and feature articles. While you are on the site there's plenty more to explore, whatever topics you are interested in.

Perhaps the most interesting AWS announcement for professional programmers from this week's annual re:Invent conference was Amazon CodeGuru which makes the claim "It's like having a distinguished engineer on call, 24x7."

There's a new release of learnr, the R learning package from RStudio. In this new version, quiz questions have been expanded to allow for more question types.

This year's Google Code-In started on December 2nd. This is the tenth event since it started in 2010 and is expected to be the biggest yet of this seven-week long global online contest in which students aged 13 through 17 from around the world are introduced to open source development.

Amazon has announced a number of updates to Redshift, its cloud-based data warehouse service.

Project Verona seems to be an attempt by Microsoft to build a new language with Rust-like features. What isn't clear is how serious this is? Are we looking at a potential Rust#?

Amazon SageMaker Studio, announced by CEO Andy Jassy on the second day of the AWS re:Invent conference, is envisaged as unifying all the tools needed for machine learning. Several other SageMaker products were launched alongside it.

Amazon has just announced an extension to the range of instances offered by the AWS cloud services - quantum! Why?

A call has gone out to all Go developers, past and present and future, to participate in the fourth annual survey conducted on behalf of Golang.org. You have until December 15th to provide your opinions and to encourage other Go devs to do so.

The latest version of PHP has been released with improvements including typed properties, arrow functions, and a foreign function interface.