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If you want to get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer, our weekly digest summarizes the articles, book reviews,and news written each day by programmers, for programmers. In this week's featured articles, Harry Fairhead explains the basics of the string in C and Mike James looks at how to create a user interface using the Java Swing library. To receive this digest automatically by email, sign up for our weekly newsletter.
5 - 11 December, 2019 Featured ArticlesFundamental C - Simple Strings
The Java User Interface - More SwingFinding out how to create a User Interface (UI) using the Java Swing library is not only a useful skill, it also is an ideal way to learn about objects and to make sure that the ideas really have sunk in. So we need to go back to Swing one more time.
Book Review of the WeekAwarding a rating of 2 out of 5, David Conrad concluded: Overall I wasn't impressed by this book. There is too much simple algebra and presentation of simple results in detail. As the level increases the detail becomes less and less until the book is really only introducing the concepts. 
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This extract, from my new book on programming C in an IoT context, explains the basics of the string, As was the case for arrays, this is not as simple as in other languages because it is so simple.
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.
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.
Amazon has announced a number of updates to Redshift, its cloud-based data warehouse service.
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.