Which programming language should you learn if you want a job at Google, Amazon, Facebook or any big software company? This question was originally answered on Quora by John L. Miller.

It's a good read, one which I recommend. Yet, the article makes an assumption that I think is arguable: There's a best first programming to learn in the first place. I'd argue, given that the ...

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a programming language that works with HTML to shape how information appears on a webpage. In other words, HTML is the building materials, and CSS is the design layout.

However, a decent programmer can work with AI in nearly any programming language, and other popular options include Java, R, JavaScript—and of course, C++.

The programming language C++ dates back to 1979. The Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup created it while he was working on his PhD thesis, as a way to add additional features to an older ...

Statistical programming language R has climbed back up to 8th place in Tiobe's latest programming language popularity index, just behind JavaScript and up from 20th position last July.

Here are 11 cutting-edge programming languages that are notable and possibly worthy of your time. Some are just a year or two old. Some are a bit older but still gaining traction.

We aggregated data from nine rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming Language Popularity. Here's which languages came out on top and what to make of this information.