Steve Wozniak - Electronics Genius 15 Aug | Harry Fairhead
 Co-designer of the Apple computer, Steve Wozniak is one of the computer pioneers who have changed the way we work and play. He is also something much rarer today, an electronics genius. He has just turned 75, so this seems like a good time to look back on his achievements.
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Programmer's Python - Metaclass 13 Aug | Mike James
 Metaclasses are advanced and you generally don’t need to know about them or make use of them. But knowing how they work might suggest alternative approaches to many problems. This extract is from my book with the subtitle "Something Completely Different".
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Successful COBOL Project Modernization 09 Aug | Gilad David Mayaan
 We usually think of COBOL as a legacy language. But it is a legacy that lives on, maintaining projects that originated as long as 50 years ago. But this is is increasingly unsustainable. We look at the why and how of COBOL project modernization with five pro tips for successful outcomes.
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Grace Hopper - The Mother of Cobol 01 Aug | Historian
 Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was responsible not only for the development of the Cobol language but also for making computers and computing more accessible. Her remarkable career justifies her accolades of "Mother of COBOL", "Amazing Grace" and "Queen of Software".
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The Pico In MicroPython: Asyncio Client 30 Jul | Mike James & Harry Fairhead
 Implementing a web client is a basic task for anyone wanting to make use of the internet and the best way to do it is to use asyncio. This is an extract from our book all about the Raspberry Pi Pico 2/2W in MicroPython.
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