The CM5 supports PWM and you can direct access to its hardware using the GPIO5 library. This is an extract from the newly-published Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 IoT In C.

Parentheses are at the heart of programming. Understand parentheses and you can rule the earth. No, seriously! Parentheses, trees and stacks are all interconnected in a very deep and fundamental way.

Large Language Models are fascinating and are probably practically important, but if you know how they work what they manage to achieve is remarkable. Is it possible that a language model can both see and hear without further training?

CodeRabbit, an AI-powered code review tool designed to automate the code review process is now integrated in VS Code, the first tool to deliver full-context reviews both in the IDE and in Git, helping teams catch bugs earlier and ship faster.

Computer science and the theory of computation has much to say about philosophy and mathematics. In particular, what is computable is closely connected to what is provable and hence what is knowable in mathematics.

This month's TIOBE Index shows another jump up in Python's popularity, resulting in the widest ever gap between it and all other languages. Perl, R and Ada are also notable in terms of moving up the rankings.

Java is an intimidating language for the complete beginner, but now there is hope of simplification in the recently proposed JEP512. And the fact that it is 512 must count for something - right?

On May 12, 1941 Konrad Zuse completed his Z3 computer, the first program-controlled electromechanical digital computer. It followed in the footsteps of the Z1 - the world’s first binary digital computer which Zuse had developed in 1938 and its successor the Z2 the first relay-driven computer.

LegoGPT is an AI model that creates physically stable Lego structures from text prompts. Not only does it design Lego models that match text-supplied descriptions, it also ensures they can be built brick by brick in the real world, either by hand or with robotic assistance.

Google has included an event dedicated to Android to take place one week before Google I/O 2025. It is a special edition of The Android Show on May 13th in which Sameer Samat, President of Android Ecosystem, and the Android team will preview the innovations and new experiences you can expect from Android16.

The last few months we've seen an increase in Java conferences. We'll try to not just enumerate, them but also mention the key talks in each of them.

JetBrains is extending its non-commercial licensing model to CLion, its IDE for C and C++ development on Linux, OS X and Windows. This means that if you are using CLion for hobby development, open-source project development, or for learning the language  you can now do so for free.

Now you can make MCP clients and servers with C# thanks to the release of the official SDK. Do note however that it is currently in preview and that breaking changes can be introduced without prior notice.

Author: David Keyes
Publisher: No Starch Press
Date: June 2024
Pages: 256
ISBN: 978-1718503328
Audience: Beginners interested in R
Rating: 3
Reviewer: Mike James
Well I'm certainly the "rest of us" - what about you?

Web browsers are the most common and widely-used platform  for code to run on. In this book Pavel Panchekha and Chris Harrelson describe how they work and how that impacts web developers and other software engineers whose work touches the web. The authors build their own web browser, including rich visual effects, multithreaded architecture, JavaScript APIs, and comprehensive security policies, and explore the challenges, interesting algorithms, and clever optimizations this entails.

This book, written for developers comfortable with another programming language, concisely covers programming basics, while introducing Python's comprehensive standard library and unique features in depth and detail. In this fourth edition, Naomi Ceder has added new coverage of AI coding tools like Copilot and Google's Colaboratory (Colab), new interactive notebooks, quick-check questions, and end-of-chapter labs.

Subtitled "A Playful Introduction to Algorithms through Puzzles and Strategy Games", in this book Elliot Lichtman explores computer science concepts by exploring them through word games, board games, and strategy games.  Learn recursion by playing tic-tac-toe, efficient search through puzzle games like sudoku and Wordle, and machine learning by way of the playground classic rock-paper-scissors.