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Fundamental C - Starting Pointers
Harry Fairhead

This extract, from my book on programming C in an IoT context, goes deeper into pointers. A topic that can be expanded on almost forever, but we have to start somewhere.

The difference between a value and a reference type is very clear to most C# programmers, but it can be a shock when a simple piece of code that seems to do exactly what you want has a surprise in store. This puzzle was contributed by C# developer. Do you have a puzzle for us? We pay $25 as a small reward.

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Chrome OS Runs Windows Apps - What's An OS Anyway?
17 Jun | Mike James

Chrome OS started out as a good idea, not a new idea, but still a good one. Since then things have gotten a little out of hand and now it has been announced that you can run Windows apps under it. Why? How? 

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), along with the Linux Foundation, has a new online course for cloud engineers. 

Google has released a Unity SDK for Cardboard, Google's virtual reality  platform based on a combination of a cardboard fold-out viewer that fits onto a smartphone. Google said last year it would open source Cardboard, and discontinued its own development of the platform. 

Udacity had added SQL to the range of programming languages in which you can gain a Nanodegree and currently you can enroll in this program with a 30% discount.

The SQLite team has announced a Jupyter kernel for SQLite. The new kernel adds the ability to use SQL for data science work within Jupyter notebooks. It supports the complete SQLite syntax plus some extra operations.

AI Fairness 360 is IBM's evolving toolkit which tackles the big problem of discrimination and bias diffusing the machine learning models. It now gets compatibility with Scikit-learn and R.

The Kite auto-complete tool based on AI, previously restricted to Python is now available for JavaScript. It also works with libraries and frameworks including React, Vue, Angular, and Node.js. 

Hopeless at drawing? Let AI do it for you. The DeepFaceDrawing system allows non-artists to produce high-quality face images  from rough or even incomplete freehand sketches. Watch the video to see the results.

Trends in game development are ever-evolving. We look at how the already-established VR, AR, and MR lead up to the latest concept - feeling-first design.

The latest update to GitLab has been released with improvements to security and new options for collaboration. GitLab is a web-based repository manager for Git that supports concurrent devops and issue-tracking, with tools for software development and deployment.

For the fourth year running JetBrains has conducted a survey of the "Developer Ecosystem". This year it was substantially bigger than previously and the results are released today.