What is a programming language? To discuss why something is or is not a programming language, we must establish a baseline definition of what a computer programming language is. To do that, we must ...

Instructions for the computer to follow. The terms "program," "software" and "application" are all computer programs. See software and instruction. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All ...

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 ...