Interested in 3D-printing, and OpenSCAD specifically, which is open source scripting-based software for creating 3D CAD objects? This book may be for you. Thanks to our Technology Editor, Steve Bush, ...

If you are a certain age, your first programming language was almost certainly BASIC. You probably at least saw the famous book by Ahl, titled BASIC Computer Games or 101 BASIC Computer Games. The … ...

If Basic had a domain, it was as a starter language, and there are many candidates to replace it, Fisher says. “The best ‘first language’ is a hot topic of debate,” she says.

LaMothe, mathematician and computer scientist and author of the immensely well-received Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus, has reprised that technohit with the same thing for 3D simulation.