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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. To receive this digest automatically by email, sign up for our weekly newsletter.
November 28 - December 4, 2019 Featured ArticlesJavaScript Canvas - Basic Paths
SAGE - Computer of the Cold War
Book Review of the WeekIan Elliot awarded a rating of 4 out of 5, concluding: This is a well-written and well-produced book. If you are the right reader then it will do its job and repay the time and effort you put into reading it. To be the right reader you need to want to make web apps and be prepared to do some work. it will suit novice developers who are willing to look things up online to supplement it. 
New Listings in Book Watch
Is Microsoft Planning To Replace Rust? Sagemaker Studio - An IDE for Machine Learning Amazon Braket On The Quantum Bandwagon Golang Wants Your Opinion PHP 7.4 Gets Foreign Function Interface Helm 3.0 Released Go Master Retires Citing AI Supremacy A Tee Is Not Just For Xmas - Ten Top Tees Have Your Say In The Kotlin Survey Julia Improves Multithreading Racket 7.5 Changes License
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Paths are the basic way to create a drawing using Canvas. In this extract from a chapter in the new book by Ian Elliot on JavaScript Graphics we look at the fundamentals of paths.
War is a spur to innovation and computing was kickstarted in the Second World War but perhaps its greatest driver was the Cold War with its need to keep track of missiles. An article from our History section.
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 
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. 
Helm 3.0 has been released with Tiller removed and the Helm Go SDK refactored for general use. Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes designed to allow developers and operators to more easily package, configure, and deploy applications and services onto Kubernetes clusters. 
South Korean Go master Lee Sedol, the only human ever to score a win against AlphaGo, Google Deep Mind's AI Go player, has retired from the game on the grounds that, however well he plays, there is no longer any prospect of beating AI. 
Programmer gifts - easy idea, difficult implementation. We have ten top fun tee-shirts for giving, buying or just wearing at any time of the year. 
Kotlin is a young language, but one that is very definitely on the fast track. To help it develop in the right direction, Android and iOS developers who use Kotlin are being asked to take part in the first Kotlin-specific survey.
Julia has a new release with support for multi-threading and the ability to add methods to an abstract type. Julia recently made it into the top six languages for machine learning projects on GitHub. 
Racket has been updated and is being released under a new, less-restrictive license: either the Apache 2.0 license or the MIT license. The new release also adds a standard JSON MIME type for the Web Server.