If language-as-code is taken too literally, the idea of optional rules, levels of formality, dialects, idiolects, variation, natural change over time and sheer fun will not compute. All the rules ...

To shed light on this issue, the researchers set out to study whether brain activity patterns while reading computer code would overlap with language-related brain activity. The two programming ...

As part of our mini-series on programming languages, Dolly Setton makes the case for Python being the best language for data journalism and our team shares their tips for getting started with it.

Ben Safiniuk is seven years old, and he knows how to write computer code – sort of. “Well, I have made a stickman. He’s like, ‘Hello’ and then he got sucked up into a ship,” said Ben.

Scientists use computer code to change how living cells behave Researchers used a programming language to engineer DNA 'circuits' Circuits can be customised to respond to cues,changing the cell's ...

One of the most powerful features of language-based generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, or AWS Code Whisperer is the ability to create computer code. After all, code is just ...

On Friday, a retired software engineer named Martin C. Martin announced that he recently discovered a bug in the original Lunar Lander computer game's physics code while tinkering with the software.

Reading computer code is not reliant on brain areas associated with language processing. Credit: MIT “It’s possible that if you take people who are professional programmers, who have spent 30 or 40 ...