Today, we’re going to look at the history of programming Since Joseph Marie Jacquard’s textile loom in 1801, there has been a demonstrated need to give our machines instructions. In the last ...

Kids who were lucky or privileged enough (or both) to gain access to computers that ran BASIC—the VIC-20, the Commodore 64, janky Sinclair boxes in the UK—immediately started writing games ...

Most are about hardware. But, some YouTubers focus on JUST programming 8 bit computers and some on JUST certain platforms. So for example there's a guy who only talks about Applesoft BASIC.

Prof. David Gries, computer science, programmed for the first time in 1959 on a “fake computer.” The machine used a “fake language,” Gries said, as computer languages like Java had not ...

But, in fact, many of the first computer programmers and coders were women, explains Nathan Ensmenger, a professor and expert on the history of computing at Indiana University and author of The ...

Tony Brooker, the mathematician and computer scientist who designed the programming language for the world’s first commercial computer, died Nov. 20 at a nursing home in Hexham, England. He was 94.

The team will start by studying code from online repositories, such as Github and BitBucket, as well as analyzing questions and responses posted on StackExchange. This massive dataset will be used to ...

I think the ‘aha’ moment we are heading for is this: programming language doesn’t matter half as much as it used to and frankly, we should stop talking so much about them.