Figured this might be the best place to ask. I'm curious if there's any good books that give some detail on how and/or why some programming languages evolved the way they did, especially during ...

This video is part of Electronic Design's 70th Anniversary series. This is a bit like Mel Brooks History of the World, Part I for programmers. I've been writing a number of articles and recording ...

Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob. Throughout the ...

I am wondering if we are reaching some sort of inflection point in the history of computer programming? An inflection point brought on primarily by the rise of so-called ‘virtual machines’. In ...

What is Computer Programming? Computer programming is the process that professionals use to write code that instructs how a computer, application or software program performs. At its most basic, ...

And we didn’t really know how to do it at that time.” Gries’ research in programming methodology involves making computer science more accessible to beginners.

Yet, while coding as we know it is indeed facing disruption, the creative, problem-solving essence of computer programming is likely to remain a largely human endeavor for the foreseeable future.