GPIO output is easy, input not so much. In this extract from our latest book on using GPIO Zero on the Raspberry Pi in Python, now designated as the default library for all Rapsberry Pi models, we look at how to get started.

If you want to make your programs go faster in the future you have to take up the challenge of threading. In this article we look at the basics of writing threadsafe code and why things go wrong.

The Roboform random password generator has been hacked to recover bitcoins worth over $3 million. The bitcoin had been inaccessible for 11 years after the password was lost.

Over half of ChatGPT answers to programming questions contain misinformation, yet the majority of developers are still keen to use AI tools and report both personal satisfaction and increased productivity from using them.

For the lovers of the command line, Spring Initializer Go is a tool with which you can initialize your Spring Boot projects without using the mouse. Is that essential?

DuckDB 1.0 has been released following a successful release of the 0.10 version back in February that introduced a version of DuckDB with both forward and backward compatibility for DuckDB's storage format.

New libraries allow you to integrate new and existing apps with Ollama in just a few lines of code. Here we show you how to use ollama-python and ollama-javascript so that you can integrate Ollama's functionality from within your Python or Javascript programs.

Microsoft has announced details of what will be included in C# 13. The news was announced at Microsoft's recent Build conference. The new version will have enhanced parameters, extension types, and several features to enhance performance.

Can automating a repetitive movement via electrical muscle stimulation reduce mental workload while users concurrently perform an unrelated task? The SplitBody research study from the University of Chicago's Human Computer Integration Lab shows that, yes, it can.

GitHub has announced the companies chosen to form the next cohort for GitHub Accelerator. Find out about this year's participating projects, all of which focus on AI.

IBM is introducing decoder-only code models for code generative tasks as part of its Granite collection. The models have been trained with code written in 116 programming languages and range in size from 3 to 34 billion parameters.

Microsoft has announced the official end of VBScript following years of reduced support. VBScript is one of the variations Microsoft created based on the original VB, and it has languished after the dropping of default support in Internet Explorer back in 2019.

Integrating Gradle builds with Github's Actions promotes the best security practices among Gradle users. To do this there's a new official and open-source GitHub Action that generates complete and accurate information about dependencies in Gradle projects courtesy of Dependabot.

Author: Michael Hartl
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Date: June 2023
Pages: 448
ISBN: 978-0138050955
Audience: General
Rating: 2
Reviewer: Ian Elliot
Learning Python is a great idea but "enough to be dangerous"?

This book shows how to use Python libraries to get, clean, prepare, and analyze data at a professional level. Scott McCoy starts by showing how to use Pandas for data analysis and Seaborn for data visualization. He then goes on to show how to use Scikit-learn to create regression models that can be used to make predictions. To tie everything together, this book contains four realistic analyses that use real-world data.

This book is an in-depth exploration of the principles and designs that have shaped computer hardware through the ages, from counting devices like the abacus, to Babbage’s Difference Engine, to modern GPUs and the frontiers of quantum computing. Charles Fox's blend of history, theory, hands-on exercises, and real-world examples makes for an insightful romp through a fast-changing world.

Sooner than we think, the dead will outnumber the living on Facebook. In this thought-provoking book, subtitled "What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care", Carl Öhman explores the increasingly urgent question of what we should do with all this data and whether our digital afterlives are really our own—and if not, who should have the right to decide what happens to our data.