This course is a high-content introduction to scripting and programming with applications in bioinformatics. It is appropriate for students with little previous programming experience. The course ...

Overview Lua offers lightweight scripting capabilities for games, applications, embedded systems and networking.Developers value Lua for simplicity, portability ...

In the era of cloud computing and mobility, businesses are demanding more agility from their IT organizations. Many silos within IT have responded to this demand. Virtualization has transformed server ...

Jeff Friesen’s Beginning Java SE 6 Platform: From Novice to Professional is out now from Apress. In this article Jeff introduces you to his new book by presenting excerpts from its chapter on the Java ...

This tutorial is an excerpt from "Learning C# 7 By Developing Games with Unity 2017 - Third Edition" by Micael DaGraca, Greg Lukosek and published by Packt. What is a variable? Technically, it's a ...

For some reason, I’m often asked this question: is scripting programming or just systems administration? Oddly enough, we briefly addressed this within the firstPowerShell Unleashed book. But, because ...

The era of scripting languages is opening up programming to the masses and extending the Web as an application platform. Even the traditional Java and Microsoft languages have had to make room for ...

What’s the difference between programming and scripting anyway? There are a billion variations of this question posted across the internet and the answer is not always as simple as it might seem. The ...

When I ask developers “what programming language do you use?”, the answer I often get is a single language. Most developers define themselves as a Java, C++, Delphi, C#, Visual Basic, PHP, Ruby or ...

It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t presume to tell you that ...

A shell script is a text file that contains a sequence of commands for a Unix-based operating system (OS). It's called a shell script because it combines a sequence of commands in a file that would ...