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Plain Old Documentation (known as pod) is a simple, lightweight markup language used for writing documentation for Perl, Perl programs, and Perl modules. This markup language is designed to make it easy for programmers to add documentation to their software and modules.
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Leo (Leonine Editor with Outlines) is an open source text editor/outliner that features clones (virtual copies of outline nodes).
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The purpose of this article is to identify insightful and well written Linux books that can be downloaded without charge. The majority of the books featured in this article are themselves released under an open source license.
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Game engines play a crucial role in the fast creation and development of computer games. As they offer a collection of visual development tools, and are often presented in an integrated development environment, they vastly accelerate the development of games.
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A framework for the quick development of websites is a structure of files and folders of standardized code (HTML, CSS, JS documents, and more) which can be used as a reference to help approach and resolve new problems of a similar nature. By providing a common structure, frameworks offer developers the opportunity to reuse code and avoid starting projects from scratch.
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BASIC (an acronym for Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use.
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bat is a drop-in replacement for the cat command adding advanced syntax highlighting and Git integration to show file modifications. It’s a really useful utility that is a massive leap up from cat. bat’s written in the Rust programming language.
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Games created in Stencyl can be exported to the web via Adobe Flash Player, and to personal computers as executable game.
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Kube is a minimal, responsive, advanced web framework for professional developers and designers. Spend less time on mundane, repetitive tasks.
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Dart Editor is a tool for editing, debugging, and running Dart applications. Dart Editor provides a large set of libraries and tools.
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Brackets is an editor for web designers and front-end developers. Brackets is built on web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
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Julia Studio is a cross-platform IDE for the Julia language based on Qt Creator and the Qt framework.
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Light Table is an interactive IDE written in ClojureScript that lets you modify running programs and embed anything.
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An integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to programmers for software development. Many coders learn to code using a text editor but in time they move towards using an IDE as this type of software application makes the art of coding quicker and more efficient. For example, IDEs have semantic knowledge of the programming language which highlights coding problems while typing. Compiling is ‘on the fly’ and debugging is integrated. Some languages are built around IDE support.
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Spyder (previously known as Pydee) is a Python development environment providing MATLAB-like features in a simple and lightweight program.
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