In Char Wu's previous JavaWorld article, " Build Your Own Scripting Language for Java" (April 2006), he designed and implemented a simple Boolean language called BoolScript and used it to ...

All Web APIs (Application Programming Interface) supply code so that you don’t have to. They handle the intricate low-level details, allowi ...

That solution was to create our own programming language: JetLang. How does it work? When car manufacturers build their vehicles, they don’t start from scratch each time.

That way, no matter what your first programming language, you can apply those skills towards learning a new one (maybe in as little as 21 minutes). Even kids' coding apps can be useful to start with.

Now, assuming you’ve started your own programming language, how does one decide what the language should be - what the available instructions are, what the rules and grammar of the language are ...

Every other programming language has to grapple with how HTML has redefined computing over the past 30-plus years. ... I still edit my own website this way, tidying it up so I can see every tag, ...