In our first installment, we wrote several programs that really did nothing more than illustrate a concept. Let's turn the complexity up a notch and compose a program that actually solves a problem.

This past May we reported about Play-i, a startup by former Google and Apple employees that was seeking to make programmable educational robots for children. The robots would teach children as young ...

Define messages and values. All the text in dialogs and messages must be defined. Any constants, such as formulas, must be defined, as well as starting and ending points, which are often part of the ...

Many people who teach programming languages claim that 'if you can learn one language, you can easily learn a new language.' However, Mark Guzdial, a professor of electrical engineering and computer ...

Intrauterine growth retardation predisposes toward long-term morbidity from type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. To explain this association, the concept of programming was introduced to ...

Zoom:https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/98021030606. Passcode is CU Boulder ZIP code (one that ends in 9). Now let’s extend this analogy to programs and programming ...

An illustration of the concept that nutrition influences a patient's response to disease is the relationship between consumption of human breast milk in the NICU and co-morbidities in preterm infants.

Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. “Programming” in board games—where you lay down instructions in ...