Spanish, French, German — or JavaScript? An Albuquerque state senator is pushing for computer programming to be counted as a foreign language under New Mexico’s public school academic requirements.

For decades, fierce debates have raged over the benefits of different programming languages over others: Java vs. C++; Python vs. Ruby; Flask vs. Django. While often waged with fervor by computer ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Editor's note: This article is part of a four-part series introducing readers to a just a few of the many faces who left Iowa City schools this May. Congratulations to everyone in the Iowa City ...

Indeed, there are computers in nearly everything these days; doesn’t the world have enough computer languages already? The short answer is: No. Here’s a dead-simple, Luddite-friendly explanation of ...

Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming ...