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Join us for this edition of O'Reilly Book Club with Luciano Ramalho, author of Fluent Python. Learn tricks of the trade, listen to stories, and connect with other fans. What you'll learn and how you can apply it Learn how to write effective, modern Python 3 code by leveraging its best ideas Discover and apply idiomatic Python 3 features beyond your past experience Understand how to make your code shorter, faster, and more readable This recording of...

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"Get to know Erlang, the increasingly popular programming language widely known for its role in concurrency. This in-depth video introduces you to the language with several examples that demonstrate Erlang in action. Learn the basics before diving into sequential programming, error handling, and support for concurrency. Then discover how Erlang enables you to quickly and easily write massively concurrent, highly available systems with a fraction of...

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"A decade after Perl Best Practices was published, tens of thousands of Perl developers continue to read, debate, and adopt most of the recommendations in the book. But, rather than deliver a fixed and eternal set of rules, author Damian Conway wanted to stimulate a mindset of continual re-evaluation of all Perl coding techniques and tools"--Resource description page.

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Solidity is the most popular blockchain language in the world designed to build DApplications (Smart Contracts). It powers Ethereum and there is an in-demand exponential growth of high-paying jobs all over the world, which is changing the way we conduct business. The course starts with covering the Solidity fundamentals including variables, if/else, operators, Boolean logic, functions, arrays, modifiers, loops, strings, and more. You will also learn...

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"What's the best way for one thread to notify another that an event has taken place? The traditional approach is to use a condition variable, but that requires a mutex, and for simple event communication, that seems like overkill: no data requires synchronized access. An alternative is to use a shared flag, but that requires polling on the part of the thread waiting for notification. As of C++ 11, an interesting new option is the use of a void future....