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 ...

A regular column about programming ... computer scientist Grace Hopper designed a language called FLOW-MATIC (a name whose badassery has yet to be outdone) that used plain-English-like commands ...

Knowing how to program a computer is good ... when I was introduced to the language; when I was in high school, I was more proficient in it than I was in written English, because it mattered ...