IT & Programming digest by CodeGym: January’23 issue

Hi there! Welcome to the new issue of CodeGym’s monthly digest on learning to program, Java coding, and career development in IT. Let’s find out about the hottest topics this month.

IT market, global trends

• Massive layouts in Big Tech companies: what’s going on? – Google to lay off 12,000 people, Microsoft Layoffs, Amazon Layoffs, And What’s Actually Happening In Tech. In January tech layoffs dominated the headlines, and made many IT rookies question whether it’s a good choice to pursue a career in tech

• But on the bright side, there are plenty of industries like healthcare and education that are holding on great this year and show high performance – Tech Layoffs Loom, but These Industries Are Still Hiring

• As for the Big Tech, there are some trends that will definitely trigger the growing need in certain tech specialists, like the further development of Metaverse – Meta will continue to dominate VR sales despite increased competition in 2023

• And here’s a brief list of major trends in the software testing industry – 2023 Software Testing Trends: A Look Ahead at the Industry's Future

Learning to Program & Starting a Career

• Discover how to level up as a software engineer – without programming – The Many Hats in Software Engineering

• Understand the basics of Canary, Blue/Green, and more deployment strategies – 5 Popular Deployment Strategies Explained Simply

• Learn how to write reusable code to earn a reputation of an effective programmer – Best Practices for Writing Reusable Code

• Read the story about the development team that decided to invest a share of their time to pay back tech debt, and see the results they’ve got – We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here's what happened

• Boost your computational thinking: read about the challenging algorithms and data structures every programmer should try

Programming Fun

• Go to the roots: as a part of Apple’s Lisa OS version 3.1 celebrates its 40th birthday, so the Computer History Museum has released the Pascal source code for it. Now it is available for download – Pioneering Apple Lisa goes “open source” thanks to Computer History Museum

• Funny enough, the rise of AI art was predicted a hundred years ago: a cartoonist H.T. Webster drew a humorous cartoon for the New York World newspaper about a fictional 2023 machine that generates ideas and draws cartoons automatically. See how it looks – 1923 cartoon eerily predicted 2023’s AI art generators

CodeGym updates and posts (in case you’ve missed them)

Boost your knowledge about the current programming trends, carefully selected by CodeGym editorial team:

• What to Expect from Java Ecosystem? – the prospects for Java specialists in 2023

• Project Loom, Containers, and Jakarta EE – what are the Java trends for this year

Improve the learning experience and get inspiration for your coding training:

• Don't Be Afraid Of Mistakes and Find What Attracts You To Programming – 7 tips from a Java mentor

• I did not expect to receive a job offer so quickly – the story of Alex, a student at the CodeGym University

• 4 Hidden Advantages Of Learning to Code With a Mentor – based on CodeGym students’ feedback

That’s all! We hope you’ve liked the digest. Do not forget to leave comments to let us know what we should include in the next edition. Now, how about getting back to Java training?