Want to learn to program? These excellent free introductory courses from Codecademy and Coursera will have you coding in no time. So you want to learn to program, but you can’t leave the house. Fear ...

Since its launch two years ago Codecademy has become synonymous with online education for basic computer programming. In that time, the company says it’s learned a few things itself and today launched ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deagreez/Getty, Tyler Le/BI Sahil Gaba, a software engineer at Google, shares his top free Google programming courses. Gaba is a ...

For years, the lingua franca for desktop computers was the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a.k.a. Basic. Essentially every PC had it, and just about anyone could learn to program ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first BASIC ...