John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82. His lifelong mission after joining IBM Corp. in 1950 as a programmer was to ...

John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82. His lifelong mission after joining IBM in 1950 as a programmer was to work on ...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has launched a new introductory path for Python programming aimed at young people. The new Introduction to Python project path has been designed to teach kids the basics of ...

The week began with coding workshops and lectures on more theoretical aspects of computer science, in which the young women learned about algorithms and the structure of programming languages. On the ...

Every programming language comes with a learning curve, but Java shares many similarities with C, C++ and JavaScript. Anyone with experience in any of those languages will pick up Java syntax quickly.