The image, which is displayed to the right of this text, looked unremarkable. Using some clever HTML5 programming under the hood, however, it delivered malicious code to unsuspecting Mac users.

This doodle shows some of these parts of computer science; coding is just one of them. Credit: Sheena Vaidyanathan. See larger image. Computer science is about solving problems using computers and ...

As interesting as this idea is, Adaptive Computer is hardly the first and only “vibe coding” platform out there, meaning writing code based on text prompts.

Flavio Coelho/Moment, via Getty Images. ... Opinion Columnist. 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.