Learning to code was supposedly the salvation of millions of liberal art majors. But now programming jobs are plummeting. The Post’s Department of Data tries to figure out what’s going on.

More than a quarter of all computer programming jobs have vanished in the past two years, the worst downturn that industry has ever seen. Things are sufficiently abysmal that computer programming ...

In some quarters today, it's still a controversial proposition to argue that computer programming is an art as well as a science. But 20 years ago, when Microsoft Press editor Susan Lammers ...

Computer-programming employment in the U.S. has reached its lowest level since 1980, ... That work, however, was addressing customer service inquiries, not engineering.

What Is Computer Programming? Computer programming is a high-tech field that’s growing in popularity. Programmers work on code to find and solve issues.

Think of all those would-be 90,000-word novelists, eight-by-four-foot oil painters, or multilevel computer game programmers. Really, there is no denying these activities will be a bit of a slog ...

Most computer programmers earn a bachelor's degree in comput. Subscribe To Newsletters. ... Programmers work closely with software developers and engineers, and sometimes their duties overlap.

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University of Washington computer science alums Taylor Williams, Jeff Prouty, Dana Wen, Tam Armstrong, and Carolyn Hughes talk about programming on Friday. Understanding how to work effectively on ...

Many older computer programmers believe they are victims of discrimination; they think companies push them out in favor of younger IT hires who are perceived as more knowledgable about the latest ...

The ENIAC programmers’ work cannot be understated but neither can it ever be taken for granted once they’ve finally been given their due, a goal that Kleiman says has yet to be reached.

In this excerpt from "The Computer Boys Take Over," historian Nathan Ensmenger explains that the first computer programmers were women because managers expected programming to be low-skill clerical ...