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This digest gives links to our news coverage, the Book Review and additions to Book Watch, one week at a time. We start with the feature articles - an extract from Fundamental C in which Harry Fairhead looks at some aspects of data in C that makes it different; and a history article about Konrad Zuse and his early German computers. To receive this digest automatically by email, sign up for our weekly newsletter.
April 4 - 10, 2019
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Data is often under-regarded by programmers. 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 This extract, from my new book on programming C in an IoT context, looks at some aspects of data in C that makes it slighly different. 
You may well never have heard of Konrad Zuse, but he has a better claim than most to be the man who invented the programmable computer in the sense of actually building one. He also could be the man who invented the first high-level programming language. So why don't we know more about him and what he did? 
Apple's grip on the walled garden that is iOS is complete, but MacOS X comes from a freer time. Are the current moves to notarization a way of building a wall around MacOS apps? It's going to be the default for new devs in 10.14.5 and for all in a future version. 
The results of the 2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey are out and, as usual, provide lots of useful insights into the global developer landscape. Here we look at when devs stated coding and their, ongoing, education. 
The team behind the Studio 3T GUI and IDE for MongoDB has released a new version that includes a SQL migration tool that can be used to import multiple SQL tables into a single MongoDB collection. The import also lets you map table relationships to JSON. 
The job search site, Indeed.com has published its list of the twenty five best jobs in the US for 2019 and over a quarter of them are ones that are relevant to the I Programmer audience. 
The Season of Docs program is now open to applications from organizations. Season of Docs is a project supported by Google that aims to bring open source organizations and technical writers together.
MIT has provided an online version of crash course on navigating the command line, using a text editor and version control, automating mundane tasks, managing packages and software and configuring your environment. 
Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, Avi Wigderson, who in addition to much original work in computation and complexity theory, has trained many generations of theoretical computer scientists through his visitor and postdoc program at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, is this year’s recipient of the ACM/IEEE Donald E. Knuth Prize. 
The very first issue of Linux Journal carried an interview with Linux creator, Linus Torvalds. To mark the magazine's 25th anniversary, the latest issue has a new interview that is well worth a read. 
Ian Goodfellow has updated his LinkedIn entry to disclose that since March he has been employed by Apple as a Director of Machine Learning in the Special Projects Group. 
The new 2019.1 release of WebStorm adds smart intentions for JavaScript and TypeScript, improved support for Angular, updated documentation for CSS and HTML, and a more powerful debug console. 
The latest addition to Udacity's range of Nanodegrees, its hands-on, career-oriented, credentials, is a 5-month program that teaches the foundations of C++. 
Redis Labs has added two new data models to the models supported by the key-value store. The company has also added a novel programmability paradigm for multi-model operation.