Hello, all forum users of Ars, I have been drawing educational comics for explaining programming concepts to newcomers. I've only gotten up to very basic concepts, but I hope to get to more complex ...

Yes, I know much of programming is primarily solving number math, but most people look at generic arithmetic as very dull, no matter how it is acted out. That's why then I explained operators, I ...

Universities are no strangers to innovating with technology. EdTech wouldn’t exist if that weren’t true. But colleges were truly at the forefront when it came to the development of computer science.

Computer coding ability has gotten especially hip recently. People who can’t code revere it as 21st century sorcery, while those who do it professionally are often driven to fits by it. And it was 50 ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first BASIC ...

Google has just announced that they’re working on a platform that seeks to make the basics of programming accessible to children age five and up. The project, called Bloks, isn’t a commercial endeavor ...

Two years ago, Apple introduced a new coding language, Swift, that it hoped would appeal to a new generation of developers. At its annual developer conference today, Apple highlighted the fact that ...

[Mike] sent in a project he’s been working on – a port of a BASIC interpreter that fits on an Arduino. The code is meant to be a faithful port of Tiny BASIC for the 68000, and true to Tiny BASIC form, ...

Thanks to its versatility, Java is one of the most leading programming languages in the world. It's also one of the top choices for Android app development. Yet, it's one of the easiest languages to ...