tetris is a terminal interface for Tetris, a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Forth
Forth is an imperative stack-based programming language, and a member of the class of extensible interactive languages. Here’s our recommended tutorials.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Firefox Upgrade – Week 18
This is a weekly blog about the Raspberry Pi 4 (“RPI4”), the latest product in the popular Raspberry Pi range of computers. UPDATE: In Week 26, I revisit Firefox again, as the Raspbian repositories offer a current version of this
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Prolog
Prolog is a general purpose, declarative, logic programming language. Here’s a curated list of excellent free Prolog tutorials.
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Excellent System Tools: nnn – portable terminal file manager
nnn is a free and open source terminal file manager written in the C programming language. nnn focuses on performance over features.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Scheme
Scheme is a general-purpose, functional, programming language descended from Lisp and Algol. Here’s our recommended tutorials to learn Scheme.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Retro Gaming – Week 17
For this week, I’m going to look at a few retro games, all nestling in Raspbian’s repositories. Free and open source gaming.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Haskell
Haskell is a standardized, general-purpose, polymorphically statically typed, lazy, purely functional language. Here’s our recommended Haskell tutorials.
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Linux Candy: xcowsay – displays a cow on your desktop with message
xcowsay is a tiny utility that displays a cow with a speech bubble containing some text. It’s free and open source goodness.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Ada
Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, wide-spectrum, multi-paradigm, object-oriented high-level language. Here’s our recommended Ada tutorials.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Screen Capture – Week 16
For this week’s blog, I turn to a desktop activity that I use fairly frequently. It’s screen capturing – sharing something on my computer screen with a colleague or friend. How does the Raspberry Pi 4 fare?
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Lisp
Lisp (derives from “LISt Processing”) is one of the oldest programming languages. Here’s our recommended Lisp tutorials to master the language.
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dutree – reclaim precious hard disk space
dutree is a command line tool to analyze disk usage. It’s written in the Rust programming language. It’s free and open source software. How does it compare to other disk usage analyzers?
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Rust
Rust is a systems programming language that runs fast, prevents segmentation faults, and guarantees thread safety. We recommend lots of Rust tutorials.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Emulate Home Computers – Week 15
Home computers were a class of microcomputers that entered the market in 1977 and became common during the 1980s. Emulate home computers on the Raspberry Pi 4.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Logo
The Logo Programming Language, a dialect of Lisp, was designed as a tool for learning. Read our recommended Logo tutorials.
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Terminal Phase – space shooting game in your terminal
Terminal Phase is a space shooting game that runs in your terminal. It’s free and open source written in the Racket programming language.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Lua
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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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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