Racket is a general-purpose, object-oriented, multi-paradigm, functional, imperative, logic based programming language based on the Scheme dialect of Lisp.
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Month: March 2020
Linux Candy: Steam Locomotive – fun command for your terminal
Steam Locomotive is a fun command that’s designed to teach you one thing. Stop mistyping ls!
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Awk
Awk is small, fast, simple, and has a clean comprehensible C-like input language. It has robust programming constructs. Here’s our recommended tutorials.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Podcasts – Week 22
Podcasts are big business. We see celebrities, influencers, journalists, academics, one man and his dog owning a microphone and mixing desk produce regular podcast shows. How does the RPI4 fare as a podcast player?
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn OCaml
The OCaml system is the main implementation of the Caml language. It has a very strong type-checking system, offers a powerful module system, and more. Here’s good OCaml tutorials.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn VimL
VimL is a powerful scripting language of the Vim editor. You can use this dynamic, imperative language to design new tools, automate tasks, and more. Here’s some helpful guides to help you master VimL
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – File Management – Week 21
This week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog focuses on file managers, recommending the best console and GUI-based file managers for this tiny machine.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Erlang
Erlang is dynamically typed and has a pattern matching syntax. The language solves difficult problems inherent in parallel, concurrent environments. Here’s our recommended tutorials to learn Erlang.
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youtube-viewer – lightweight application that searches and streams videos from YouTube
youtube-viewer is a lightweight application for searching and streaming videos from YouTube. youtube-viewer is free and open source software.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn SQL
Structured Query Language (SQL) is a specialized programming language originally developed by IBM in the early 1970s. Here’s our recommended tutorials to master SQL.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – OBS Studio – Week 20
This is a weekly blog about the Raspberry Pi 4 (“RPI4”), the latest product in the popular Raspberry Pi range of computers. This week, I test OBS Studio on the RPI4.
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5 Excellent Free Books to Learn F#
F# (pronounced F sharp) is a general purpose, strongly typed, multi-paradigm programming language that encompasses functional, imperative, and object-oriented programming methods. Here’s our recommended free F# books.
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You-Get – downloader that scrapes the web
You-Get is a tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the web. It’s free and open source software, with a huge number of GitHub stars.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Julia
Julia aims to create an unprecedented combination of ease-of-use, power, and efficiency in a single language. Here’s our recommended Julia tutorials.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – News – Week 19
A news aggregator is software which collect news, weblog posts, and other information from the web so that they can be read in a single location for easy viewing.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Clojure
Clojure is a dialect of the Lisp programming language. It’s a well-rounded language. It offers broad library support and runs on multiple operating systems.
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Linux Candy: tetris – terminal interface for Tetris
tetris is a terminal interface for Tetris, a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov.
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