June 24, 2016 11:42 am
Published by PrasannikaApple has placed the final nail in Flash’s coffin. Earlier this month, the Cupertino-based tech giant announced that it would no longer use Flash as the default media player for its upcoming Safari 10 web browser.
Flash has long been the preferred software platform for online multimedia, applications and animation. In recent years, however, the platform has been criticized for its security vulnerabilities, poor performance, and inability to function on many mobile devices. As a result, many companies are now choosing to use HTML5 for multimedia playback instead of Flash.
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June 17, 2016 1:42 pm
Published by PrasannikaPioneered by University of New Mexico’s computer science chairman Cleve Moler in the early 1970s, MATLAB (short for matrix laboratory) is computer programming language that supports mathematical and numerical computations, as well as matrix manipulations, function plotting, data plotting, algorithm implementation, user interface creation and more. It can be used in conjunction with other popular languages like C, C++, Java and Python.
Moler had originally created MATLAB with the goal of providing his students access to LINPACK and EISPACK. It wasn’t long before the language was picked up by other schools — and other developers began tinkering with it to improve its utility. In the 1980s, Moler teamed up with engineer Jack Little and Steve Bangert to rewrite the language in C.
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June 17, 2016 6:43 am
Published by Mark TregoIt’s no secret that skilled programmers are in very high demand these days. In fact the US Department of Labor estimates that there will be 1.4 million computer specialist job openings by 2020, and enough qualified graduates to fill… wait for it… 30% of them. So if you have your sights set on a coding career, go ahead, break out the champagne.
However, there’s a catch; the tech industry moves at lightning-fast speed. What’s hot now could be obsolete in 5 years, or could have revolutionised pretty much everything. That means it’s difficult to know which languages you should be brushing up on to win that lucrative job at that big tech company.
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