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  Introducing a free, self-paced, quick and official course, one of of Oracle's Dev Gym quizzes, about the concepts and syntax behind SQL's Analytic functions. Oracle's Dev Gym quizzes, a collection of workouts and classes, offer a form of "active learning" recognizing the idea that to get better at writing code, you actually need to write code - and also read and understand code.So these quizzes are a mix of video and code tutorials that incorporate an interactive playground where you can tweak and run the tutorial's attached code in order to strengthen your code comprehension skills and learn in depth the subject at hand.To join you just need an Oracle account, which is free too. full article on i-programmer.info

  Another installment of our ongoing in-depth coverage of the new Udacity Nanodegree program that will enhance your career prospects as a Java web developer. At last we get to play in the big league with the Java Persistence API and Hibernate. Because there's always a confusion around JPA vs Hibernate, the first thing we learn in  Data Stores and Persistence  is that the Java Persistence API (JPA) is the specification and that Hibernate is an implementer of it; just like in OOP where a concrete class implements an interface. full article on i-programmer.info

  Getting familiar with OpenID and OAuth is really difficult.There are dozens of specifications to go through, and to make things even worse the two protocols involve different terminology. To help out, Pragmatic Web Security offers a free and outstanding course on OAuth and OIDC 101. full article on i-programmer

  The ever-changing landscape of development on the Android platform gets an update with the new Jetpack Compose UI toolkit. I think it's important to know where to draw the line between evolution and stability. On one hand innovation and bringing new ideas and features to a framework are necessary and welcome. On the other hand if you constantly and totally substitute the ways you do things rather than improve them, you force everyone to work just in order to just keep up. The Android platform is one such case - breaking backwards compatibility every step of the way. First there was Java, now there's Kotlin. Saying that, it's not just the introduction of Kotlin that has changed the face of development, but the whole revamping of the platform, the libraries and the way of building apps. on i-programmer

  This momentous event happened in a competition organized by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to test autonomous air-to-air combat systems. Should we be surprised by yet another indication of AI superiority? full article on i-programmer