PHP is an extremely popular, interpreted scripting language that is ideally suited for web development and as a general-purpose programming language.
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14 Excellent Free Books to Learn C++
C++ was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup with its first release in 1983. It is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, portable, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it has a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. C++ was designed for systems and applications programming, extending the C programming language. Hence the name C++, the increment operator is written as ++.
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Linux Candy: Ternimal – animated lifeform in the terminal
Ternimal simulates a lifeform in the terminal using Unicode block symbols. It’s a script written in Rust with no dependencies and consumes few resources.
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Excellent Utilities: exa – replacement for ls
exa is a replacement for the venerable ls command. exa sports more features and arguably better defaults than ls.
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8 Excellent Free Books to Learn Vim
Vim is an open source configurable and powerful text editor. It’s an improved version of the vi editor, with development dating back to 1976. This software can be used to write any kind of text.
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9 Best Free Books to Learn about Rust
If you had to describe Rust in just three words, they would be fast, safe, and productive. There’s memory safety without garbage collection, concurrency without data races, abstraction without overhead, and stability without stagnation.
I recommend 8 books to get you up to speed with the Rust programming language. There’s introductory texts, books that dig deeper into the language, as well as other texts that will help you migrate from C++ and Ruby to Rust.
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Excellent Free Books to Learn about Clojure
Clojure is a dynamic functional general purpose programming language that runs on the Java platform. There’s lots of good reasons to learn Clojure. It offers a modern take on Lisp. There’s an excellent parser library, and a fully featured logic engine. In Clojure, immutability is the default. Once an object or data structure is created, it cannot be changed.
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20 Recommended Free Books to Learn about Ruby
I recommend 15 free books which will teach you the basics of Ruby. Many of the books are open source. All of them can be read without requiring payment.
Read moreClockywock – ncurses analog clock
Clockywock is billed as a cool ncurses analog clock. The software is written in the C++ programming language. The software is released under an open source license. Features include: Mono or color mode. Change characters used for hands. Change background
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18 Excellent Free Books to Learn JavaScript
JavaScript is possibly one of the easiest language to get up and running with. But to truly master the language requires a firm foundation of its intricacies. This compilation of free books ticks all the boxes.
Read moreKEEL – Java tool to assess evolutionary algorithms for data mining
KEEL (Knowledge Extraction based on Evolutionary Learning) is an open source Java software tool that can be used for a large number of different knowledge data discovery tasks. KEEL provides a simple GUI based on data flow to design experiments
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nuclear – desktop music player focused on free streaming
nuclear is a modern music player (Electron based) focused on streaming from free sources. The software is released under a free and open source license.
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Linux Candy: ASCIIQuarium – embrace marine life from the terminal
ASCIIQuarium is a short Perl script that lets you embrace aquatic nature from your terminal. It’s an aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art.
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Halo – Weather software written in Python
Halo lets you view the weather in your town/city and check out the forecast and historic temperature trends. Halo identifies your location based on your IP address. But you can also add other locations.
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Essential System Tools: hyperfine – command-line benchmarking tool
hyperfine is a command-line benchmarking tool. It’s designed to measure the full execution time of a program. This open source tool is written in Rust.
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