After being in development for more than five years, the first stable version of Perl 6 — the latest generation of the Perl family of programming languages — was announced in December 2015. Since then, it’s become a popular language,...
Developed in the mid 1990s by Japanese programmer Yukihiro Matsumoto, Ruby is a dynamic, object-oriented, general-purpose programming language. It was influenced heavily by Perl, Msalltalk, Ada and Lisp. If you’re still skeptical of Ruby, check out some of the following...
It’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...
The dynamic, uninterpreted computer programming language JavaScript has been named the #1 most used language, according to a bi-annual report published by RedMonk. Of course, this shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who keeps up with RedMonk’s bi-annual programming...
Originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994, PHP is a general-purpose programming language that’s commonly used in the deployment of server-side scripts. It’s powered by the open-source platform Zend Engine, and can either be embedded directly into HTML or...
Welcome to Golang certification class number 19—How to use interfaces in Golang programming. Today, we’ll be discussing how you can define and use interfaces in Golang programming. Let’s begin by discussing why interfaces are necessary in programming. An interface is...
We’ve so far discussed how you can declare and initialize maps in Golang. In this blog post, we discuss how you can use loops to implement your Golang maps. We use loops in maps to initialize a block of several...
We’ve so far discussed how you can declare and initialize arrays and slices in Golang. In this blog post, we discuss how you can use loops to initialize your arrays and slices. Why do we need loops when initializing some...
In our previous blogs, we’ve discussed Golang’s data types, arrays and slices. In this tutorial, we present a one more in-built type—the maps. By the end of the class, you should have learnt how to use maps in your Golang...
In this class, we’ll discuss how to use arrays and slices in Golang. By the end of the tutorial, you’ll be in a position to declare and use arrays and slices in Golang. Let’s start by looking at the differences...