Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully ...

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 ...

Until last week, my understanding of the inner machinations of computers was reduced to the “black magic and the vile sorcery of the Hobgoblins.” When my research mentor suggested I try my hand at ...

May 30, 2025 • You no longer need to be a software engineer to build software — you can "vibe code" it by prompting chatbots to build apps and websites. Could that put programmers out of a job?

Whether you are advancing your tech career or transitioning into the tech sector, online computer science classes provide you with the education you need. Many courses have little to no cost and allow ...

I recently read (sort of) Frederick Brooks's The Mythical Man-Month. As I understand it, this book is a cult classic, and I was very curious to read it. It's about software project management, and ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Doja Cat's music video for "Woman" is turned into an interactive experience that focuses on computer code where people can learn about programming as they go on to direct the next scenes, and more.

LITTLE ROCK — Robots - not the "Danger Will Robinson!" kind from the television series Lost in Space - but rather small disc-shaped ones, like the Roomba vacuum robot, are part of the curriculum at ...

Forget the big talk about computer programming jobs. Leave off the tales of talent-starved tech industries, juicy salaries and perks. For 16-year-old Ruskin High School students Dennis Baleta and ...

A St. Louis-based tech nonprofit is training inmates in computer programming while they're still incarcerated to give them a shot at landing jobs in the tech industry and avoid returning to prison.