Topic: coding
GitHub announces new Copilot capabilities and Codespaces general availability
GitHub announced several new products designed to accelerate the company’s push into major enterprises. GitHub Copilot will soon bring its AI-pair programmer to businesses with added admin controls and the ability to manage licenses. Copilot uses OpenAI Codex to suggest code and functions in real time right in the editor. “Hey GitHub” also makes Copilot … continue reading
Coding bootcamps provide great opportunities for future developers
Getting a computer science degree from a four-year university used to be the only pathway into a high-paying tech job, but those days are over. Coding bootcamps are now just as viable an option for many jobs. It seems developers are catching on to this, because in the most recent Stack Overflow Developer Survey, 70% … continue reading
Report: The emergence of Big Code comes with big problems
Despite efforts to make building and maintaining applications more maintainable, code is still growing in volume, variety, velocity and value. As a result, the trend Big Code has emerged and is expected to be just as disruptive to development teams as Big Data was to data teams. “Today’s massive codebases make it difficult for developers … continue reading
The art of code reviews
Code reviews are a crucial component of the software development process. It encourages the software development team to interact with one another, collaborate, and improve the quality of their code. However, it’s more than just checking new code to detect errors and become familiar with the codebase. According to Phil Hughes, front-end engineer at GitLab, … continue reading
SD Times news digest: AWS DeepComposer, React Native 0.62, and Nim programming language 1.2
Amazon announced AWS DeepComposer is now generally available. The company first announced the machine learning solution at AWS re:Invent last year. AWS DeepComposer includes in-console training that enables users to train generative models without having to write any machine learning code. In addition, the composer is powered by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and allows users … continue reading
premium Guest View: The importance of healthy code for your business
Coding creates the backbone of most businesses today, whether it is developing an app for our smartphones or other software meant to ensure smooth technological processes. It is a way we can talk to machines using a logic base and make them do what we want them to do. However, one misplaced figure or apostrophe … continue reading
HackerRank: Coding bootcamps explode in popularity among younger developers
Coding bootcamps have been exploding in popularity over the years. In 2019 alone there were 23,043 graduates from coding bootcamps, according to a report from Course Report. In HackerRank’s recent Developer Skills 2020 report, the company explored some of the recent trends surrounding bootcamps. For the report, HackerRank surveyed over 116,000 developers from 162 countries. … continue reading
Make better use of air travel: Write code
Long flights can be pretty boring, especially if like me, you have a rock-bottom boredom threshold. I routinely fly from London to San Francisco , an 11-hour daytime flight. What to do…what to do… Maybe I watch a movie, then what? Watch another four? No matter how much reading, snoozing, eating I can do, it’s … continue reading
Bootcamps and MOOCs are picking up STEAM
Coding boot camps and massive online open courses (MOOCs) are often called a “fast track” to well-paying tech jobs. The courses cost significantly less for tuition, and they run for three to six months on average. The average boot camp tuition is around $11, 874. “Learners need transformative learning and valuable credentials at an affordable … continue reading
Girls in Tech adds new Python coding program
Girls in Tech wants to add Python skills to women’s toolbelt in a new web development bootcamp announced this week. CODE G: Level II is a 40-hour, 5-day bootcamp designed to teach the basics of web development as well as provide best practices for maintaining codebases. “Python is used by tech firms across the Valley … continue reading
Angular Console introduces simpler UI for Angular CLI
A new developer tool is being introduced into the Angular ecosystem to provide a simpler UI for the Angular CLI, the command line interface for the open-source front-end web application platform. Angular Console has been under development for the last three months by Angular development consultation company Narwhal and the Angular team. It was designed … continue reading
National Coding Week kicks off today
There are hundreds if not thousands of efforts going on every year to get more people into the world of computer science. For instance, every year Computer Science Education Week kicks off with its Hour of Code to get students to dedicate one hour to coding. This week the National Coding Week kicks off, and … continue reading
