Hey, everyone, and welcome to our new weekly digest, where we collected the most thought-provoking articles from the software development galaxy. As always, before we come to the actual list of articles, we’ll tell you about one of the interesting articles.

This time, our hero will be an old woman, who became a millionaire by spilling hot Coffee on her knees.

One day, this 79-year old granny was in the passenger seat of her grandson’s car when she ordered coffee at a McDonald’s drive-through window. Having received her coffee, she asked her grandson to stop the car so she could add cream and sugar to her coffee. She put the cup of coffee between her legs trying to remove the lid but… Unfortunately, she spilled the entire liquid contents on her lap.

As a result, she’s diagnosed with third-degree burns on approximately 6 percent of her body.

This brave woman decided to settle with the fast-food giant at $20,000. However, they refused settlement, so this led to additional lawsuits. During the investigation, it turned out that more than 700 people made claims against McDonald’s over being burned by their coffee.

After a jury trial, Liebeck was awarded $200,000 in compensatory damages as well as $2.7 million in punitive damages. However, the amount of compensatory award was reduced to $160,000 as a jury found poor Liebeck 20 percent at fault in the spill.

A post-verdict investigation showed that the temperature of coffee at the local McDonald’s, where had been bought that unfortunate coffee, had been dropped to 158 degrees Fahrenheit.

1. Kotlin Coroutines on Android — Farewell RxJava? In this very episode, you’ll find out about the coroutines and the way they make simplify/complicate the development process.
2. Focus and Deep Work — Your Secret Weapons to Becoming a 10X Developer. Deep work is one of the most crucial skills in the life of a programmer. Bar Franek wrote an outstanding article, where he shared a few effective techniques to help you develop this skill.
3. The most difficult things about learning to code by yourself — and how to tackle them. Coding isn’t easy and there are many various obstacles and challenges you may face during your career. This post, written by Xiang Zhou has a few great techniques that will help you cope with some of it.
4. A comparison between Angular and React and their core languages. Dler Ari wrote a powerful post, where he compared a few some of the most popular technologies in 2018: Angular and React. He addressed their history, key differences, core languages (JavaScript and TypeScript) and so on.
5. How To Learn Data Science If You’re Broke. This success story, written by Harrison Jansma, consists of various guidelines and pieces of advice that can help you make your own data science curriculum. This article is your doors to the world of data science world.
6. 10 Free Courses to Learn Docker for Programmers and DevOps Engineers. Why is it important to learn Docker in 2018? One of the reason is a salary, which can reach $100.000. Do you want to learn more? javinpaul will tell you!
7. It Doesn’t Have to be Perfect. From times to times, every software developer gets the “Legacy code.” However, with the power comes great responsibility. Joe Crick, an author of the article, will tell you a number of life wisdom, which can help you become an even better developer.
8. Kotlin and Android #3 — know your properties. “Kotlin boasts an excellent support for properties. No more you are limited to the bare-bones fields that Java offered; no more envying C# developers for their fully-fledged properties!” And this is only beginning. Take a look at this piece if you want to find out more! By Sebastiano Poggi.
9. Secrets from the Interview Room — What Reviewers Look For in a Take-home Coding Assignment. Daniel Korn gathered common issues and misconceptions to help candidates avoid doing mistakes and emphasize several points that the assignment checker looks for.
10. React Native — Is it Really the Future of Mobile App Development? Do you want to find answers on the following questions: “What is React Native and its future in the mobile app development?” or “Reasons Why React Native is The Future of Mobile App Development.” If so, you’ll definitely find this article captivating.

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