T h e . C o d e R a n c h . J o u r n a l

April 2019 Edition

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Howdy from all the CodeRanch staff, and welcome to the April edition of the Journal.


A . B e t t e r . W o r l d!
by Paul Wheaton

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A book about global solutions you can do in your backyard.

Live a more luxuriant life, save money and REALLY make a difference in solving global problems.

Environmentalism without sacrifice.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/better-world-book?ref=ag1x9r


A . S p o n s o r ' s . C o r n e r!

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Become Java guru with IntelliJ IDEA!

Save time with code generation and ensure top code quality with IntelliJ IDEA's code analysis and refactoring.

Download free at https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/


W h a t ' s . N e w?

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April's promotions - thankful for the great contributions

Marshalls: Campbell Ritchie, Liutauras Vilda, Bear Bibeault, Jeanne Boyarsky, paul wheaton

Saloon Keepers: Stephan van Hulst, Ron McLeod, Tim Moores, salvin francis, Carey Brown

Master Ranchers: Nicole Alderman, Mikalai Zaikin, Rob Camick

Ranch Foremen: Jay McGavren, Louis Muller, Moritz Lenz, Al Hobbs

I n t e r e s t i n g . C o d e R a n c h . F o r u m . T o p i c s

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Functional vs Old style programming syntax

Importance of Inheritance

Design an Elevator System

Traversing a stream of Characters

B o o k . P r o m o t i o n s . & . W i n n e r s

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There's a book (or software) promotion just about every week at CodeRanch. Just ask a question in the appropriate forum and you're eligible to win a copy of the book.

We've got some promotions coming up. Check the Book Promotions Schedule.

Some upcoming ones are:

Natural Language Processing in Action by Hobson Lane, Hannes Hapke & Cole Howard

Building Ethereum DApps by Roberto Infante

Grokking Bitcoin by Kalle Rosenbaum

Well Grounded Rubyist by David Black & Leo Joseph

Book promotions winners can be found at:

A big Congratulations to our Past Winners

B o o k . a n d . R e v i e w s

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We have several forums dedicated to talk about books. Here are some interesting reviews and recommendations from the CodeRanch staff in our Book Reviews forum.

Recently reviewed books

by Jeanne Boyarsky:

AWS Certified Developer Associate Guide by Vipul Tankariya and Bhavin Parmar (5 out of 10 horseshoes)

Python Continuous Integration and Delivery by Moritz Lenz (7 out of 10 horseshoes)

Java in a Nutshell by Ben Evans and David Flanagan (9 out of 10 horseshoes)

The Book Review Grid will give you an overview.

Editor's book choice for the month:

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler and Kent Beck

T h e . M o o s e . o n . S o c i a l

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T h i s . M o n t h ' s . E d i t o r

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Liutauras Vilda - a passionate software developer, who could walk 10 miles one way just to rename variable to a better one.

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