A few days ago I wrote a post about what programming language you should learn first for a career in programming. This sparked a lot of conversation (much of it on Google+ submitted without reading ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

So, which coding language should you learn? If you ask our community of instructors and alumni in the trenches of the tech ecosystem, many of them say JavaScript. From the mouths of experts, here’s ...

As a language, JavaScript receives more than its fair share of criticism. Its default global variables, prototypical inheritance, and dynamic typing are often considered flaws that can lead to sloppy ...

The Detroit project envisioned using JavaScript as an extension language for Java applications. Now it’s being revived with ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...