Understanding the core principles of computer programming is the first step to writing effective code. Learning about ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

We’ve put together a list of some of the best books to learn programming languages, covering everything from writing clean ...

Back in the CPM/CPM86 days a popular business basic was CBasic/Cbasic86. I did a lot of work for small businesses in those basics. These days I use VB for Windows/SQL work when necessary. Commodore 64 ...

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit purposes.

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...

Ah yes, my first programming language on trash-80. I wouldn't go back tho. However, I would take Basic any day over Cobol. I'm getting really tired of migrating old code from the 70s. Same. I bought a ...