Abstract: Programming has become increasingly important in our society. However, the learning process presents significant challenges, particularly for novice students of introductory courses. From ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

Classic programming books continue guiding developers in object-oriented design. Design patterns, refactoring methods, and clean coding improve software quality. Modern programming languages still ...

Programming languages are the foundation of modern technologies, including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and software development. Languages such as Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, and Rust ...

Functional programming in Dart and Flutter. All the main functional programming types and patterns fully documented, tested, and with examples.

In Sarah Yuska’s sixth-grade science class at Monocacy Middle School in Frederick, Maryland, students are just finishing up learning about body systems—respiratory, circulatory, skeletal, and so on.

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Two years ago, when visiting research colleagues in Uppsala, Sweden, we were asked a deceptively simple question: “What does it mean to program?” For context, one of us had just completed academic ...

Looking to get into statistical programming but lack industry experience? We spoke with several statistical programmers from diverse backgrounds, and one thing became clear—there’s no single path to ...

[Simon Willison] has put together a list of how, exactly, one goes about using a large language models (LLM) to help write code. If you have wondered just what the workflow and techniques look like, ...