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 ...

During the past few decades, programming languages have come a long way. In comparison to the dawn of UNIX and C, when compiled languages were just getting their start, today's world is full of ...

Universities are no strangers to innovating with technology. EdTech wouldn’t exist if that weren’t true. But colleges were truly at the forefront when it came to the development of computer science.

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For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust. Many software projects emerge because—somewhere out there—a programmer had a personal problem to solve. That’s more or ...

It’s been nearly a decade since Mark Zuckerberg launched what would become the world’s largest social network. Since those early days, Facebook’s infrastructure and code have evolved, with some of it ...