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Should First-Year Programming Students Be Taught With Python and Java?
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: In an Op-ed for The Huntington News, fourth year Northeastern University CS student Derek Kaplan argues that real pedagogical merit is what should count when deciding which language to use to teach CS fundamentals (aka 'Fundies'). He makes the case for Northe...
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Steam On Linux Ends 2024 With Small Marketshare Boost, AMD Linux CPU Use Near 74%
Phoronix reports on Valve's "Steam Survey" results for December 2024, saying the new numbers "reflect a nice upward trend for the Linux gaming statistics and a high point in recent times."
In November the Steam Survey reflected a 2.03% marketshare for Linux... Roughly inline with what we have been...
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Brazil Ended Daylight Saving Time. But It Might Bring It Back
Brazil ended daylight saving time in 2019, reports the Washington Post, adding that some Brazilians loved the change, "particularly those who commute long distances and are no longer forced to leave their houses in pitch blackness." But "In the heavily populated southeast, the sky begins to brighten...
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FSF Urges Moving Off Microsoft's GitHub to Protest Windows 11's Requiring TPM 2.0
TPM is a dedicated chip or firmware enabling hardware-level security, housing encryption keys, certificates, passwords, and sensitive data, "and shielding them from unauthorized access," Microsoft senior product manager Steven Hosking wrote last month, declaring TPM 2.0 to be "a non-negotiable stand...
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Billionaires and Tech Barons Vying To Build a Private Space Station
"Private space stations have been raising billions of dollars in an effort to build future hubs — and even one day cities — in orbit," according to a recent report from the U.K. newspaper, the Telegraph:
Axiom Space, a US business aiming to build its own station, has raised more than ...
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