Programming News: New Python, Tenth Summer of Code, Code in Education, UndoDB, GitHub and More
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-03-18 15:46:38 UTC
- Modified: 2014-03-18 15:46:38 UTC
Python
Yesterday, Python 3.4 was finally released, so I'm now happy to announce the first stable release of kdevelop-python which supports Python 3!
Python 3.4 was released on March 16, 2014.
Python 3.4 doesn't have any new syntax features but it does have other new features, new library modules, improved library modules, and other enhancements.
PHP
Google SoC
What's new for Google's Summer of Code (GSoC) internship program this year? For one, GSoC accepted 190 mentoring organizations, which is more than any other year. The very first GSoC program began in the summer of 2005, so this year also marks another milestone—they're 10th year anniversary.
If you’re a university student looking to earn real-world experience this summer, you can join with us at Google Summer of Code coding for a cool open source project, Google invites students.
Every year, Google's Summer of Code event helps foster hundreds of interesting open source projects driven by students who are helped by mentoring organizations. The company is celebrating the 10th year of the program in 2014, and has announced that this year's Summer of Code is underway. In 2013 Google accepted almost 1,200 students and the company is hoping to accept 10 percent more this year.
Education
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Logo, Small Basic and Python are all accessible languages for the top end of primary. Good folk like Phil Bagge and Dr Chips have been very successful in teaching Python with primary pupils, and Logo has a long, noble heritage in primary.
UndoDB
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A Linux debugging tool more efficient than GNU debugger (GDB), really?
Bucking time honoured marketing best practice stating that a firm shalt not use an OVERT NEGATIVE in an advertising headline, promotional campaign or (saints preserve us) the actual name of the company, it appears Undo Software is doing well in the Linux debugging market.
Well, ok, the term "undo" could be a positive in tech if it is used to correct a mistake, which of course it is in this case with the reversible debugging tool UndoDB from Undo Software.
The company has this month worked with Mentor Graphics Corporation to implement UndoDB and develop Linux code faster.
GitHub
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Recently I came across a number of open source Ruby (or at least the majority of it was Ruby) projects on GitHub that, when checked with a code analyzing tool like Rubocop, create a lot of offences.
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Github has released a beta of what it says is “ the text editor we've always wanted.”
Atom, for that is the software's name, is billed as “modern, approachable, and hackable to the core” and also “welcoming to an elementary school student on their first day learning to code, but also a tool they won't outgrow as they develop into seasoned hackers.”
Misc.
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I came to work with open source after an experience in college. We used a system called Usenet,a world wide distributed discussion forum. At the university, there wasn't an email client I liked, so I wrote one and just gave it (including the source code) to whoever wanted it. This experience introduced me to a community of people who made things and shared them; it also introduced me to a job at my alma mater as a Usenet administrator.
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