Origins

What Is Pascal?

An introduction to the Pascal programming language, its origins, design philosophy, and where it is still used today.

What Is VB.NET?

An introduction to VB.NET, a modern, object-oriented .NET language derived from classic Visual Basic, covering its history, ecosystem role, and comparison to C…

What Is Tcl/Tk?

An introduction to Tcl, the embeddable command language created by John Ousterhout, and Tk, its companion toolkit for building cross-platform graphical interfa…

What Is Lua?

An introduction to Lua's history, design philosophy, and defining traits as a lightweight, embeddable scripting language.

What Is F#?

An overview of F# as a functional-first, statically typed language on .NET, its origins, and why developers choose it.

What Is Erlang?

An introduction to Erlang's origins, design philosophy, and the concurrent, fault-tolerant systems it was built to run.

What Is Elixir?

An introduction to Elixir, a functional, concurrent programming language built on the Erlang VM for building scalable and fault-tolerant applications.

AWS CloudFront Basics

Understand how Amazon CloudFront's global CDN caches and accelerates content delivery, including origins, cache behaviors, and invalidation strategies.

What Is Git?

An overview of Git as a distributed version control system, its origin, design goals, and the core concepts that distinguish it from other tools.

What Is C#?

An overview of C# as a modern, type-safe, object-oriented language built for the .NET platform, covering its history, design goals, and where it fits today.