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Catch up with everything on I Programmer last week. Our digest gives links to news coverage plus the week's book reviews and additions to Book Watch. The list finishes with an extract from Android Programming in Kotlin showing how to create an Android UI using code and a history article, John Backus - the Father of Fortran. To receive this digest automatically by email, sign up for our weekly newsletter.
November 22 - 28, 2018 Book Watch This week's additions to Book Watch, our ever-growing archive of newly published computer books, are:
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Apple App Store Antitrust Suit It is obvious that Apple has a monopoly on iOS apps, but it is using a very slippery argument to thwart the current class action being brought against it for being said monopoly. Google Launches Web Component And Data API For Quick, Draw! Wednesday 28 November Google has released a web component and API based on drawings collected as part of its Quick, Draw! AI-based drawing experiment. Update: JS Foundation and Node.js Foundation Progress Towards Merger Wednesday 28 November Following on from the joint announcement of a planned merger and community feedback approving the intent, the boards of the JS Foundation and the Node.js Foundation are in what they call a “bootstrap” phase, exploring all of the potential details that must be considered as part of a merger. Free Machine Learning Training From Amazon Amazon announced today that the machine learning courses used to train engineers at Amazon are now being made available to all developers through AWS for free. The Perl Renaming Debate Highlights Tensions The name "Perl" lies at the heart of the drama developing between the two languages, Perl 5 and Perl 6. This is a long way from the once desirable unification and moves towards breaking the ties between former sister languages now emerging as total foes. FoundationDB Adds Multi-region Support A new version of FoundationDB has been released with support for multi-regions within single clusters, faster failover recovery and improved TLS. Dreams Come To Life With Machine Learning Combining music, art and machine learning, a magical transformation of the Walt Disney Concert Hall was created to celebrate to 100th anniversary of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. New Site For Google's Coding Competitions Google hosts three separate coding competitions that are "meant to enthrall, challenge, and test coders". Google has now launched a new website to make it easier to sign up and join in. Better Face Detection in Amazon Rekognition Updates to Amazon's face detection software have led to a significant increase in its performance in detecting faces from images, avoiding false detections and in making matches. Pyro Now On Watson Machine Learning Friday 23 November Pyro, a universal probabilistic programming language (PPL) written in Python and supported by PyTorch on the backend, is now available on IBM's Watson Machine Learning platform with PyTorch 0.4 Chrome Working Towards Faster, Smoother UX One announcement from the 2-day Chrome Dev Summit that took place in mid-November was that Google has pledged $200,000 for JavaScript Frameworks. Here's a round up of news from the event. Microsoft Malmo Marlo Competition Dates Extended Thursday 22 November The closing date for entries to a competition co-hosted by Microsoft has been extended to the end of December, and the initial kickoff round of the tournament has been held at AIIDE 2018, a workshop on artificial intelligence and digital entertainment. Android Programming In Kotlin: Programming the UI Monday 26 November You can create an Android UI using code rather than XML but this isn't as well known. Here's how to do it in Kotlin, in an extract from the published book Android Programming in Kotlin: Starting With An App by Mike James. John Backus - the Father of Fortran Thursday 22 November 
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Creating the first compiler went hand-in-hand with the task to creating the first high-level computer language. You can argue that this was Fortran or some other language, but the fact of the matter is that Fortran was the language that kickstarted the widespread use of computers. This is the story of how it happened.