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Alicia Dwyer Cianciolo overviews NASA's plans to land the first woman and person of color on the Moon, describes the complexity planned with each mission, and how that complexity is being managed. In ...

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Variables are the bread and butter of coding. Without variables, apps would have no interactivity and no way of manipulating information. Therefore, learning about variables in Java should be among ...