Abstract: Several essential services, such as cellular phones, the Internet, television, navigation, weather prediction, and remote sensing, rely on satellites in low-Earth orbits, the technology for ...

YouTube programming tutorials are widely used by developers, yet their metadata (titles and descriptions) is often generic, incomplete, or dominated by promotional content. In this paper, we ...

The promise of RPA software is that it can create reusable and repeatable tasks quickly and easily. Companies such as UIPath, Automation Everywhere and Blue Prism provide 'low-code' or 'no-code' ...

User-defined instructions (UDIs) let engineers write logic once and reuse it across many components, eliminating tedious copy-paste duplication. Any updates to a UDI definition automatically propagate ...

The Advanced PLC Programming Certificate provides the student with enhanced technical skills and knowledge necessary to work with programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Students entering the program ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

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Generics make your code more flexible and easier to read, and they help you avoid ClassCastExceptions at runtime. Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections ...

The Arduino Opta micro programmable logic controller (PLC) provides a unique entry point into the automation field. Automation fields like smart homes, process controls, and robotics are project areas ...

UniStream TA32 PLC offers six analog inputs, two temperature inputs and three analog outputs onboard, and is scalable to 2,048 local I/O, and nearly limitless remote I/O. It can handle 64 independent ...