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 ...

For the rest of the history of modern programming languages -- because C was really just the beginning! -- check out the infographic below. You can click it to zoom in.

The evolution to symbolic thinking ... the technological revolution has introduced a new form of language: computer programming. Looking to the future, natural language programming promises ...

Abigail Liew meets Dr Arthur Norman, a founder of Cambridge’s Computer Science course, to reflect on the rapid advancements ...

Back in 2000, Ian Buck and a small computer graphics team at Stanford University ... became a more recent priority in the GPU programming evolution. The resulting work in OpenACC, which was done in ...

But no computer can do anything until a computer programmer tells it to behave in specific ways. That’s what computer programming is all about. At its core, computer programming is little more than a ...

More than a quarter of all computer programming jobs have vanished in the past two years, the worst downturn that industry has ever seen. Things are sufficiently abysmal that computer programming ...