Just-released Version 1.113 of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor emphasizes improvements ranging from chat customizations ...

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Dave Gray offers a solid, free Python tutorial that runs for about 9 hours. It’s a pretty methodical course, starting with the basics and moving into more complex stuff like closures and recursion. He ...

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You can now run LLMs for software development on consumer-grade PCs. But we’re still a ways off from having Claude at home.

Abstract: This paper presents a new teaching tool with the goal of facilitating the learning of basic programming concepts among high school students and university freshmen. The tool incorporates a ...

AutoGen Studio is an AutoGen-powered AI app (user interface) to help you rapidly prototype AI agents, enhance them with skills, compose them into workflows and interact with them to accomplish tasks.

Visual Studio now features built-in and custom AI agents, expanding automation in the IDE. Developers can create, integrate, and scale their own agents using flexible Microsoft tools. Built-in agents ...

Abstract: We present Visprog, a neuro-symbolic approach to solving complex and compositional visual tasks given natural language instructions. Visprog avoids the need for any task-specific training.