Microsoft’s free cross-platform IDE, Visual Studio Code 1.5
Microsoft has just released a new version of its cross-platform editing and debugging suite: Visual Studio Code 1.5. With support for a broad range of languages including C, C#, Ruby, JavaScript and...
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Opera – the browser that came in from the cold
Opera used to be my favourite web browser. But that was long ago. Since then I’ve moved on: these days I generally use either Firefox, Chrome or Vivaldi. On Windows 10, I use Edge and on my iPad I use...
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Camtasia 9 For Windows / 3 For Mac (Review)
https://www.techsmith.com/Price: $199 (includes licence for both the Windows and Mac editions)Upgrade from previous version: $99.50It’s been a few years years since TechSmith released a major new...
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Cyberlink PowerDirector 15 review
http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector-ultra/PowerDirector is one of the best value video editing programs available. Fast and feature rich, it is suitable for creating both professional and...
View ArticleLEARN TO PROGRAM C – Special Deal
Get my best-selling video-based C course – SAVE 80%73 lessons, plus code and eBook for just $29THE C LANGUAGE is consistently one of the most in-demand of all programming languages. Good C programmers...
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VEGAS Pro Edit 14 Review
http://www.vegascreativesoftware.com/The is the first new release of VEGAS since MAGIX bought it from Sony early in 2016. In spite of its new ownership, the software looks and works pretty much the way...
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Introduction to C Programming
This is the first in a series about the basics of programming in C. These lessons are taken from my book, The Little Book Of C, which is the course text for my online video-based course, C Programming...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2017 Launches March 7th
The latest version of Microsoft's powerful multi-language Windows-based programming environment, Visual Studio, is launched on March 7th, 2017. For more information see this Microsoft blog post:...
View ArticleGetting Started with C Programming
In the last article in this series, I gave a quick overview of the C programming language and showed how to write a very simple program. Here I will explain how to pass arguments to your programs and...
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VEGAS Movie Studio 14 Platinum review
VEGAS Movie Studio 14 Platinum $79.99 (£69.99)http://www.vegascreativesoftware.com/us/vegas-movie-studio-platinum/VEGAS Movie Studio 14 is a low cost video editing package that provides the essential...
View ArticleMedia 100 - Mac video editor, now free!
Media 100 Suite, a well-established video editing suite for the Mac is now available free. This news was just announced by MacVideo Promo, a company that specializes in deals on Mac software, in...
View ArticleNetBeans Day - in London!
If you are a fan (as I am) of the cross-platform, multi-language programmer's editor/IDE, NetBeans, then you may be interested in the forthcoming NetBeans Day event at The University of Greenwich on...
View ArticleAdvanced C Programming – Pointers. NEW COURSE!
Get this $95 course for just $15.Pointers. In C, there is just no getting away from them. Understanding and being able to use pointers correctly (and safely) – well, it’s the difference between a...
View ArticleC Programming for Beginners: Variables and Types
This is part 3 of my series on C programming for beginners.See also: part 2.When you want to store values in your programs you need to declare variables. A variable is simply a name (more formally,...
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MAGIX Video Pro X (2017 edition) review
http://www.magix.com/gb/video-pro-x/£349 (399.99 Euros)[Currently (June 2017) on offer at: £299]Upgrade from previous version: £149 (199.99 Euros)If you need a good video-editing package for Windows,...
View ArticleThe Golden Wombat Of Destiny (the game, the musical and me)
Little did I know when I wrote my first big computer program that it would end up as possibly the most enduring thing I’ve ever done. This was back in the early 1980s. Having decided to learn how to...
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Landscape Pro 2 Review
Anthropics Technology Ltd.https://www.landscapepro.picsSo you take a photo. Everything looks great. The arrangement of the sea, the mountains in the distance, the people in the foreground is just as...
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iClone 7 Review
iClone 7 $199iClone 7 Pro Bundle (includes 3DXchange7 Pro and Character Creator 2) $299Reallusion https://www.reallusion.com/iclone/iClone 7 is a 3D animation package. It lets you create and render...
View ArticleC Programming for Beginners: Operators
This is part 4 of my series on C programming for beginners. (See also part 3)In your programs you will often want to assign values to variables and, later on, test those values. For example, you might...
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VEGAS Pro 15 Review
VEGAS Pro 15 Edit – € 399 / $399 / £299VEGAS Pro 15 – € 599 / $599 / £499VEGAS Pro 15 Suite – € 799 / $799 / £649http://www.vegascreativesoftware.com/If you’ve used VEGAS before, the first thing you’ll...
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