D espite offering less functionality than IDEs, code editors are great when you want to quickly edit your config files, ...

Visual Studio Code is a free code editor from Microsoft, based on open source. It’s highly customizable with tens of thousands of themes and extensions, including those for working with any ...

As you learned in my recent introduction to programming with classes and objects, you initialize an object via the code that you place in a class’s constructor. Consider Listing 7. Listing 7.

“IBM built the Code Assistant for IBM Z to be able to mix and match COBOL and Java services,” Puri said. “If the ‘understand’ and ‘refactor’ capabilities of the system recommend that ...

Recovering design patterns can enhance existing source code analysis tools by bringing program understanding to the design level. This paper presents a new, fully automated pattern detection approach.

Find out how source code is compiled for different programming languages and computer architectures, including the evolution from FORTRAN to CLR and JIT compilers. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking ...

I came of age in the 1980s, programming personal computers such as the Commodore VIC-20 and Apple ][e at home. Going on to study computer science (CS) in college and ultimately getting a Ph.D. at ...