I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

I have always taken it for granted that, just as my parents made sure that I could read and write, I would make sure that my kids could program computers. It is among the newer arts but also among the ...

In a remarkable display of skill and determination, William & Mary Computer Science teams showcased their prowess at the Mid-Atlantic Regionals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest this ...

As a new year approaches, you might be curious to see whether your programming skills are still in demand or whether you should consider up-skilling for the best opportunities. Hundreds of coding ...

Computer engineering is a broad field that sits in between the hardware of electrical engineering and the software of computer science. When computer engineers design hardware, they focus on what the ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

My computer coding education ended in a high school classroom in the early 2000s, when I created a game in which two camels spit at one another. The experience of typing every line of code was ...

For many years in the industrial automation sector, end-user petitions for openness and flexibility had been at odds with what suppliers were willing to offer. Especially in the case of digital ...

Learning to code seems an increasingly practical skill in a digitizing world. Languages that were once known only to a few masters in their field are beginning to be democratized. However, not ...