Whether you are using a social media app on your smartphone or working with a cloud server’s API, the task relies heavily on a programming language. What you may not know about computer programming ..

This development not only marked a big first in the history of basic computer programming languages as we see it today, it helped set the precedent of universities as leaders in computer science ...

The computer ... programming that achieved a neat midpoint between the mind of a human and that of the machine. This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the ...

Christopher Strachey was known as the “person who wrote perfect programs,” as noted in a long profile from the journal, Annals of the History ... new computer’s programming language.

Last December, he issued a YouTube video in which he urged young people to take up programming ... as a major moment only in the history of computer languages dramatically understates its ...

“I CERTAINLY didn’t set out to create a language that was intended for mass consumption,” says Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist who devised Python, a programming ...