Forbes

Even The Most Advanced Computer Programmers Have Probably Never Heard Of This Concept

Okay, I have to admit, I live in something of a programming language filter bubble—among people I know, probabilistic programming languages are a regular topic of conversation. So I was quite ...
Inside Higher Ed

Programming with Pictures

Nationwide, drops in computer science enrollment are staggering, with a Computing Research Association survey finding that the number of new computer science majors at Ph.D.-granting institutions in ...
The New York Times

It’s the End of Computer Programming as We Know It. (And I Feel Fine.)

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, one of the ...
Education Week

Computer Programming Goes Back to School

Learning programming introduces students to solving problems, designing applications, and making connections online. We are witnessing a remarkable comeback of computer programming in schools. In the ...

Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal

Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully ...