Despite its complexity, the software development process has gotten better over the years. “Mature” programmers remember how many things required manual intervention and hand-tuning back in the day.

Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

Having the ability to understand the basics of computer science can benefit you in a variety of technical careers. If you want to break into the world of computer programming or high-tech work, a good ...

I was a programmer back when the languages that were taught were COBOL (shudder), Assembly, Pascal, Fortran and BASIC. And all programmed on mainframes... My son is now quasi-interested in learning to ...

High Performance Computing (HPC) and parallel programming techniques underpin many of today’s most demanding computational tasks, from complex scientific simulations to data-intensive analytics. This ...