Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit purposes.

It has been over 300 years since the binary system was created, over 170 years since the first computer algorithm and over 70 years since ENIAC. What’s next? The internet has been around for over 25 ...

The recent statement by Nvidia’s CEO Jen-Hsun (Jensen) Huang shook the general public’s thoughts on an education that was just recently been promoted strongly by governments around the globe for K-12 ...

Dennis Ritchie invented C, the computer-programming language that underlies Microsoft Windows, the Unix operating system and much of the other software running on computers around the world. Mr.

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of the ...

Although perhaps not as much of a household name as other pioneers of last century’s rapid evolution of computer hardware and the software running on them, Niklaus Wirth’s contributions puts him right ...

If you were a Windows programmer in the late 1980s and early 1990s, most likely you had a copy of Programming Windows by Charles Petzold on your bookshelf. The book, in its many editions, was so ...