If you have already honed your programming chops with PIC, you can build your own programmer ... a serial port to connect the programmer to a computer. Keep your eye on this one as [texane ...

If your image of a computer programmer is a young man ... anything that can be noted logically," explains Isaacson. "Words, pictures and music, not just numbers. She understands how you take ...

Following are samples of the 50,000+ entries, photos, diagrams and charts in this tech reference, written by Alan Freedman, one of the first computer programmers in America (more about the author ...

The flash-based PIC family of microcontrollers is another popular choice. Since they aren’t quite as beginner or user-friendly, setting up a programmer for them is not as straightforward.

Quick, picture a computer programmer. Did some combination of social awkwardness, extreme smarts, and possibly an unhealthy obsession with video games come to mind? True or not (and many advocates ...

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. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum ...