Google also employs numerous programmers who have an interest in such matters as the compilers that convert the source code written by humans into the binary instructions a computer understands.

Before becoming a software engineer at Google, 33-year-old Sahil Gaba was an entirely self-taught computer engineer with a mechanical engineering background. Many new programmers who start in Gaba ...

Things are sufficiently abysmal that computer programming ranks among 10 hardest-hit occupations of 420-plus jobs for which we have data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

But a new Utah 4-H program, in partnership with Google, will allow middle-school-aged kids a chance to grow some different skills: computer programming.

The organization Black Girls Code led the day-long workshop in which the girls, who ranged in age from 7 to 17, were taught how to build a computer game. The workshop took place at Google’s ...

Today on Google is a special logo, aka Google Doodle, for Ada Lovelace. Ada Lovelace was born 197 years ago today and invented the first algorithm or computer program in 1842.

Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page said it was a concern for improving the image of computer programming that led the web giant to participate in filming Fox’s The Internship, a comedy ...