Daily bread 12/20/2017

• Free Technology for Teachers: BandBlast - A Fun App for Learning to Play Music

  tags: music

• ​Five highly-paid and in-demand programming languages to learn in 2018 - TechRepublic

  • ​Five highly-paid and in-demand programming languages to learn in 2018
  • in demand
  • a decent pay packet
  • expected to take off next year.
  • Python
  • data scientists with Python skills who are earning the big bucks
  • machine learning will typically know programming languages and frameworks related to data science, have a strong mathematical ability, and likely a Masters degree or PhD in computer science, mathematics or related field
  • R
  • automation and machine learning
  • Java
  • Big multi-nationals tends to have a preference for Java
  • there's more jobs than there are individuals available to do that work
  • Java remains a good choice for someone starting out as a programmer.
  • Go
  • helps power some of Google's biggest web properties.
  • commonly requested as a skill in job adverts for devops engineers
  • Kotlin
  • offering "some of the best features of other languages" combined with "interoperability with Java"
  • an Android developer with this up-and-coming language on their CV will stand out from the competition

• Points Indicator for Skilled Migrant Expression of Interest | Immigration New Zealand

  tags: nz_immigration

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