If you were designing a general purpose programming language today, what major features and constraints do you think are necessary? Let's constrain (heh) ourselves to languages that might compete with ...

Kathryn Cunningham discussed her work applying human-computer interaction methods to support the needs and goals of computing students at the undergraduate level. An emerging trend within computer ...

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.

James Gosling learned a lesson in a recent blog post on the subject of scripting vs. strongly typed general purpose languages, and that is that readers of technology news are evil. Yes, I mean you.

Also called a "domain-specific language," a special-purpose language is a programming language designed to solve a finite class of problems. For example, LISP and Prolog were designed for AI. Tex was ...

Open-source programming language Python has become one of the few languages that won't disappear anytime soon. It's the top or one of the top two languages in most notable language popularity indexes, ...

New Hampshire has installed what appears to be the first historical highway marker honoring computer programming, according to the Concord Monitor. The new sign honors BASIC, Beginner’s All-purpose ...