Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just ...

A while back, TheServerSide tackled the value of teaching Java as an introductory programming language. The author did a nice job of analyzing the language in terms of its features, its complexity and ...

This is your brain on computer programming. The post How learning computer programming ‘rewires’ parts of the brain appeared ...

Findings by Hopkins researchers suggest that all humans are equipped with the foundation needed to learn programming ...

In case you haven’t noticed, the pedantic annoying colleagues around you who constantly correct your grammar mid-speech are having a moment. As AI models become a big part of our work and personal ...

Editor's note: This article is part of a four-part series introducing readers to a just a few of the many faces who left Iowa City schools this May. Congratulations to everyone in the Iowa City ...

Learning to code doesn’t require new brain systems—it builds on the ones we already use for logic and reasoning.

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Open-ended, community based, and collaborative, “esolangs” serve as a reminder that digital art has other histories and other futures. Matthias Lutter, “helloworld-pietbig.gif.” This is a Piet program ...

If you are a very large, rich technology company today, it seems it is no longer enough to have your own humongous data centers, luxurious buses, and organic lunch bars. You need your very own ...