The computer will then execute the resulting program — this is the end product of coding. In actual day-to-day coding, though, there are additional quality control and error-correction steps.

The process of writing computer programs is known as coding. Until recently, most computer code was written, at least originally, by human beings.

A few weeks ago, I went to an office in the Mission District of San Francisco to get an advance peek at a computer program that promises to disrupt computer programming. I was visiting OpenAI, a ...

In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, a nationwide computer science immersion program sets up shop at a couple Virginia elementary schools. The NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs has the story.

Company representatives approached me because they saw I am a former computer programmer. After a 10-year career as a programmer/system analyst, I went on to writing articles for a living.

Computer programmers are urging that K-12 students be introduced to computer coding—designing and writing source code for computers—early in their school careers, due to a growing scarcity of ...

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 ...