Programming languages are tools that help developers communicate with computers and build everything from apps to AI systems.

If you thought that C is the kind of language that only 60-year-old white men know, think again. Yeah, it’s the dinosaur among today’s programming languages. But it’s still alive and kicking in more ...

9 programming languages and the women who created them Software development has a well-known reputation for being a male-dominated world. But despite this, women have made many important and lasting ...

Tony Brooker laid the foundation to transform computer science from an academic discipline into a fixture of daily life. At the University of Manchester in 1954, Mr. Brooker developed one of the first ...

For many digital products, poor user interface design and UX can sink an app’s fortunes even if the underlying engineering is powerful and innovative. (Remember Color?) But what about the interfaces ...

The C language has been a programming staple for decades. Here’s how it stacks up against C++, Java, C#, Go, Rust, Python, and the newest kid on the block—Carbon. The C programming language has been ...

The first digital computers are built for wartime purposes, including Eniac (pictured), the first fully electronic American computer, which in 1946 is originally programmed by six women recruited by ...

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