A year ago, his son, 31-year-old Shareef Abdelhaleem, was a successful computer programmer driving around Toronto in a fancy car. Today, the young man wears a prison-issue jumpsuit, and is confine ...

Picture computer programmers, and you probably think of workers at individual workstations, each working on their own sections of code. Naturally, the truth is more complicated than that ...

Detail-orientation is an essential trait of many successful computer programmers. Programming languages can be unforgiving, and even in simple programs many small details must be analyzed ...

According to Kahson's playful analysis, there's a direct correlation between the success of a programming language and the length of the hair growing on the face of the man who built it.

Quick, picture a computer programmer ... and shyness may go together with programming skill, but these weren’t the traits most highly correlated with success in the field.

Niall Rice, a successful computer programmer lost almost a million dollars to two psychics he confided in after his girlfriend died. A US psychic will spend a year in prison after allegedly ...

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum ...