New research might widen access to learning computer programming. Source: skynesher/iStock It is routinely assumed that to be a computer programmer—to write code, in other words—you need to be good at ...

Brain scans show that most of us have a built-in capacity to learn to code, rooted in the brain’s logic and reasoning networks.

In the last three decades, computers have changed our world beyond recognition. And underpinning that technological revolution has been the language that computers speak – the language of computer ...

Open-source programming language Python has become one of the few languages that won't disappear anytime soon. It's the top or one of the top two languages in most notable language popularity indexes, ...

Legislators in Florida have put forth a bill that would encourage high school students to take computer science classes by allowing them to earn foreign language credits after obtaining technical ...

The developers of the Nim programming language have released version 1.0, promising programmers a "stable base" for their code that won't be broken by future versions of Nim. Nim is a statically typed ...

When it comes to getting women into technology roles, the issue is no longer a shortage of skills, but a lack of commitment to hiring and retaining female talent, according to the founder and CEO of ...

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...

Large language models evolved alongside deep-learning neural networks and are critical to generative AI. Here's a first look, including the top LLMs and what they're used for today. Large language ...