Scanning QR codes with smartphones is easy. However, sometimes you don’t want to use your smartphone and wish to scan the QR code natively on your computer. The good news is it’s possible to ...

You probably already know how to scan a QR code with your phone.It's simple enough: just open the camera app, point your phone at the code, and tap the link. What if you're on your computer, though?

The disanalogies between computer code and language are as important as the analogies. A single missing character or bit of puntuation will cause a computer program to run improperly, ...

Now, just because a technology is ubiquitous doesn't mean you have to study it in school. For example, we all fly in airplanes, but getting your pilot's license is not part of the K-12 curriculum.

Computer coding can be a boring and tedious task but Code Mobile is currently traveling across Canada trying to show that it isn’t. “It’s to encourage kids to become creators and innovators ...

Many scientists have learned to write computer code without formal training, and so they may simply not know of the open-source software culture of sharing such codes, Morin and his colleagues said.

The Hour of Code is an annual campaign organized by Code.org, which is dedicated to expanding access to computer science, and increasing participation by women and underrepresented minorities. Its ...

For the most part, though, the computer geek consensus is that the so-called “interpreted” languages like PHP are slower than the “compiled” languages like C++. In general, interpreted ...