GenAI may be accelerating a developmental transition in how learners conceptualize programming itself.

Java Essentials Volume 2 provides structured pathway from Java fundamentals to advanced application development ...

Chinese artificial intelligence startup MiniMax today announced the release of M2.1, a significantly enhanced performance for real-world complex tasks and agentic capabilities across more programming ...

The R language for statistical computing has creeped back into the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. “Programming language R is known for fitting statisticians and ...

Prebuilt binaries are available on GitHub, in the Releases section (only on Windows for now, cross-compiling is a pain in the ass). You can optionally put them in your PATH (so it's available in the ...

Programming languages have, almost since their inception, assumed a fixed syntax that is rooted in English for its keywords, with relatively few exceptions. Pascal has PROGRAM, FUNCTION, VAR, and so ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

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 ...

AI has mushroomed. We know that generative AI has already become ubiquitous, so that it is now bidding to augment, assist and even replace the things we do. GPU company CEO Jensen Huang declared ...

Once I started thinking about the apocalypse, it was hard to stop. An unsettling encounter with the doomsday clock that hangs over New York City’s Union Square got me frantically searching WikiHow for ...

House G.O.P. leaders tucked the provision into a procedural measure needed to pass a government spending bill. By Catie Edmondson Reporting from the Capitol House Republican leaders on Tuesday quietly ...

This is part of our Do You Recognize These? series. You may use at least one programming language regularly but you have probably used or learned about more along the way. Syntax and semantics of ...