How do programming languages get created, and what goes into design decisions? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and ...

Pair programming and code review are each practices that improve the quality of software, as well as promote knowledge sharing. When the agile vs. lean, XP vs. Scrum, and vi vs. Emacs debates get slo ...

Existing formal and defacto naming standards do not always reflect the naming practices of Indigenous peoples. For this reason, a new Person Name Data Standard (PNDS) has been developed. The PNDS ...

Modular programming supports code reusability by allowing developers to create and use modules as building blocks for larger systems. Modules can be reused in different parts of the same system or ...

“Back in the 20th century, if a program had a bug, that was bad, the program might crash, so be it,” said Andrew Appel, professor of computer science at Princeton University and a leader in ...

One company that has created such an AI-completion feature is Tabnine, of Tel Aviv. Tabnine used GPT-2 to feed so much code to its programming software, also named Tabnine, that this software ...

Coding Fact: In 1968, Gates and his friends spent hours playing with the computer and learning its programming language: BASIC, or Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Most of you ...

Wilkes quickly became a programming whiz. She first worked on the IBM 704, which required her to write in an abstruse “assembly language.” (A typical command might be something like “LXA A ...

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, one of ...

Programming is becoming an essential skill. Aside from the tremendous demand for programmers worldwide, learning how to code has many overlooked benefits. Coding teaches the power of persistence ...