Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications. Here’s our recommended tutorials to master this language.
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Linux Candy: gti – typo-based curio inspired by Steam Locomotive
gti catches accidental typos of ‘gti’ instead of ‘git’. It displays an animation of a car driving by, and then launches git.
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Linux at Home: Cooking with Linux
Home cooking is an activity that’s great for individuals as well as families, where we can teach our children the joy of creating freshly cooked home food.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Taking Notes – Week 25
Turn the Raspberry Pi 4 into a low power writing machine. Capture thoughts, ideas, to-do lists, and lots more with these notes applications.
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Introduction to R and RStudio for Data Science
This is a short introductory training session on the use of R in data science.
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4 Excellent Free Books to Learn Tcl
Tcl (Tool Command Language) is a dynamic programming/scripting language based on concepts of Lisp, C, and Unix shells. Here’s our recommended free Tcl books
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn LaTeX
LaTeX is a professional document preparation system and document markup language written by Leslie Lamport. It’s a very mature system with development starting more than 30 years ago. Here’s our recommended tutorials to learn LaTeX.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Educational Games for Kids – Week 24
With so many young children currently unable to follow their usual routine of going to school, playing with friends, and undertaking many hobbies, it’s vital to keep them happy and learning.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn CoffeeScript
CoffeeScript is a very succinct programming language that transcompiles into JavaScript, so there is no interpretation at runtime.
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Beets – music tagger and library organizer using the MusicBrainz database
Beets is a media library management system. Beets is free and open source software. It’s a tool for getting your music into shape. Here’s my verdict.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn BASIC
BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use. Here’s our recommended free tutorials to learn BASIC.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Viewing Photos – Week 23
This week, I’m examining photo viewer software on the RPI4. There’s lots of open source photo viewers, so I focus on gThumb, feh, GPicView, and QuickViewer.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Racket
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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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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