New figures have claimed C++ is among the top three most popular programming languages used by developers today.
The TIOBE Index (opens in new tab)which promises to check more than one billion lines of code every day in an
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World BC vacation programming 2022
With the vacations simply across the nook, World BC is worked up to carry you a few of our festive specials and encore shows airing on World BC & BC1 from Dec. 23 to Jan. 1, 2023.
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Stack Overflow Didn’t Ask How Bad Its Gender Problem Is This Year | WIRED
Liuzzo acknowledged “there’s a lot of work to be done to make the field of software development more diverse and inclusive, and Stack Overflow has a big role to play in that work.” She says the organization has published a
Google’s Bard AI is getting better at programming
It seems like there’s a new update announced every day in the ongoing race to have the most advanced AI. The latest comes courtesy of Google, which is launching further improvements to Bard, including better advanced reasoning and math abilities.
ARRAY Sets Summer Programming With Masterclass by Niecy Nash-Betts
Ava DuVernay’s arts and social impact collective ARRAY has announced its slate of summer programming, including an actor’s masterclass taught by Emmy winner Niecy Nash-Betts, a cinematic celebration of Jean-Michel Basquiat and the debut of two new commissioned projects from
ChatGPT may be coming for our jobs. Here are the 10 roles that AI is most likely to replace.
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Experts say ChatGPT and related AI could threaten some jobs, particularly white-collar ones.
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It could do so
Remembering South Africa’s “Grand Geek” Barry Dwolatzky
To some of his former students, Professor Barry Dwolatzky was the “Grand Geek” – a name of which he was very proud. But Barry, who passed away in Johannesburg, South Africa on 16 May 2023, was much more than a
Google unveils ‘Codey,’ programming-focused generative AI model
Staying true to Google I/O’s origins as a developer conference, the company has unveiled a new generative AI model that’s focused on writing and understanding code, fittingly named “Codey.”
Up to this point, Google’s generative AI tools have been powered
Hugging Face and ServiceNow release a free code-generating model
AI startup Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research, ServiceNow’s R&D division, have released StarCoder, a free alternative to code-generating AI systems along the lines of GitHub’s Copilot.
Code-generating systems like DeepMind’s AlphaCode; Amazon’s CodeWhisperer; and OpenAI’s Codex, which powers Copilot, provide
Late Architecture with Functional Programming
Many approaches to software architecture assume that the architecture was planned at the beginning. Unfortunately, the architecture planned in this way is hard to change later. Functional programming can help achieve loose coupling to the point that advance planning can