Programming languages to learn now, network monitoring tools, backup solutions, and more must-reads

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11 Feb 2019 Rikki Endsley (Red Hat) Feed

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Unsurprisingly readers had great interest in—and strong opinions on—which programming languages you should learn, which brought in almost 15,000 page views to Marty Kalin's article recent article.

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Top 10 (February 4-10)

Which programming languages should you learn?

Learning a new programming language is a great way to get ahead in your career. But which one?

Marty Kalin

Top 5 open source network monitoring tools

Keep an eye on your network to avoid downtime with these monitoring tools.

Paul Bischoff

Terminal command prompt on orange background

Which open source backup solution do you use?

Share your favorite Linux backup solution in our new poll.

Don Watkins (Correspondent)

Getting started with Vim visual mode

Visual mode makes it easier to highlight and manipulate text in Vim.

Susan Lauber

4 steps to becoming an awesome agile developer

There's no magical way to do it, but these practices will put you well on your way to embracing agile in application development, testing, and debugging.

Daniel Oh (Red Hat, Correspondent)

Take a free course on OpenSCAD, FreeCAD, and Blender

Expand your job skills with Wikiversity's Open Source 3D Printing course.

Joshua Pearce

7 predictions for artificial intelligence in 2019

While 2018 was a big year for AI, the stage is set for it to make an even deeper impact in 2019.

Salil Sethi

7 steps for hunting down Python code bugs

Learn some tricks to minimize the time you spend tracking down the reasons your code fails.

Maria Mckinley

Digital hand surrounding by objects, bike, light bulb, graphs

Getting started with Git: Terminology 101

Want to learn Git? Check out this quick summary of the most important terms and commands.

Matthew Broberg (Red Hat)

NetLogo for scientific research: Modeling

Learn more about this tool for modeling a variety of natural and social phenomena.

Peter Cheer

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Rikki Endsley - Rikki Endsley is the Developer Program managing editor at Red Hat, and a former community architect and editor for Opensource.com. In the past, she worked as the community evangelist on the Open Source and Standards (OSAS) team at Red Hat; a freelance tech journalist; community manager for the USENIX Association; associate publisher of Linux Pro Magazine, ADMIN, and Ubuntu User; and as the managing editor of Sys Admin magazine and...

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