Even while modern tools and services make developers more productive, there's still an 'app gap'. It's the gap between the code you have the resources to build and the code that your stakeholders want ...

New releases from OpenAI and Anthropic sparked an existential crisis among coders, but many engineers say they stopped coding months ago.

Google and Microsoft might be arch rivals in desktop and mobile, but their interests align in some areas of programming thanks to Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Microsoft's open-source code editor that ...

In a recent survey of more than 1100 astronomers, almost half have received little or no software training, despite 90% writing at least some of their own code. Jon Cartwright reports on the latest ...

Writing code without having some way to easily organize sets of variables or data would be a real bother. Even if in the end you could totally do all of the shuffling of bits and allocating in memory ...

Technology has transformed education but while students learn how to use it, they rarely learn how it works. Now a growing realisation among educators that this gap needs to be filled is prompting a ...

Microsoft Research today launched Code Hunt, a browser-based game for anyone interested in learning how to code by playing. The premise is straightforward: the player must write code to advance in the ...

The classic VS Code is great and all, but these specialized forks are better for certain programming tasks ...

A pair of Penn State University grads with a mix of education and tech backgrounds are the owners and operators of Philadelphia’s first Code Ninjas, a STEM-focused bootcamp for kids age 5 to 14. The ...

In our first installment, we wrote several programs that really did nothing more than illustrate a concept. Let’s turn the complexity up a notch and compose a program that actually solves a problem.

The best laptops for programming aren't too different from the best laptops overall, but they are a little more focused. Our favorite laptops for programming have great keyboards, big bright displays ...