Lua is a lightweight, small, compact, and fast programming language designed as an embeddable scripting language. Here’s our recommended Lua tutorials.
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Month: January 2020
Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Memory Usage – Week 14
The Raspberry Pi 4 has 3 models with 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB of RAM. We explore memory usage of Chromium, Mathematica, and other applications.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Scratch
Scratch is a visual programming language developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. Here’s our recommended Scratch tutorials.
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Deepin Music – a beautiful and simple music player
Deepin Music is a free and open source beautiful and simple music player. It supports viewing lyrics during playback, and plays lossless audio. Luke reviews the software.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Fortran
Fortran (Formula translation) is a multi-paradigm programming language invented by John Backus of IBM in the 1950s. Here’s our recommended tutorials.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Screencasting – Week 13
This is a weekly blog about the Raspberry Pi 4 (“RPI4”), the latest product in the popular Raspberry Pi. This week, we examine screencasting on the RPI4.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Scala
Scala is a modern, object-functional, multi-paradigm, Java-based programming and scripting language that’s released under the Apache License 2.0. Here’s our recommended tutorials to learn Scala.
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LXMusic – music player designed for the minimalist
LXMusic is a music player designed for the minimalist. It’s written in the C programming language, and uses GTK+.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn COBOL
COBOL is an acronym which stands for Common Business-Oriented Language. Here is our recommended COBOL tutorials to help you master this language.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Reading Comics – Week 12
The best open source comic book readers for Linux are YACReader, MComix, and QComicBook. Let’s see how they perform on the Raspberry Pi 4.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn R
The R language is the de facto standard among statisticians for the development of statistical software. Here’s our recommended tutorials to learn R.
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Melody – music player written in Vala
Melody is a music player designed for elementary OS but runs on other Linux distributions. Luke puts Melody under the microscope.
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17 Best Free Console Based Linux Multimedia Apps
The vast majority of Linux users would never be satisfied without access to a graphical user interface. However, even in 2020 there remain many reasons why console based applications can be extremely desirable. Although console applications are very useful for updating, configuring, and repairing a system, their benefits are not only confined to system administration.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, scripting, dynamic programming language. Here’s our recommended Perl tutorials.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Home Theater – Week 11
Kodi is free, open-source software for managing your local collection of movies, television shows, music, and photos. It’s the finest free home theatre software available.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Pascal
Pascal is an imperative and procedural programming language designed in the late 1960s by Niklaus Wirth. We recommend the following tutorials.
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conrad – conferences and meetups on your terminal
conrad is a free and open source command-line tool designed to help you track conferences and meetups. The tool is written in Python.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Go
Go is a compiled, statically typed programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. Read these Go tutorials.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Watching Video – Week 10
This week, I’m looking at straightforward video playback from locally stored media. Does the RPI4 have sufficient grunt to be a capable video player?
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