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Joel Gratcyk's son Wesley spends a few hours a week learning to code in Python, PHP, and Swift. Wesley started taking free courses when he was 7 and uses both online and library resources. Gratcyk ...

Developers code for a living and that means a whole lot of time on laptops writing. So when they're coding, they could benefit from something like Google's AI-generated Smart Compose suggestions in ...