Today, we’re going to look at the history of programming Since Joseph Marie Jacquard’s textile loom in 1801, there has been a demonstrated need to give our machines instructions. In the last ...

Figured this might be the best place to ask. I'm curious if there's any good books that give some detail on how and/or why some programming languages evolved the way they did, especially during ...

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob. Throughout the ...

Tony Brooker, the mathematician and computer scientist who designed the programming language for the world’s first commercial computer, died Nov. 20 at a nursing home in Hexham, England. He was 94.

An expert in the history of computing explains how and why coding went from a mostly female job to a field with a major gender problem.

I am wondering if we are reaching some sort of inflection point in the history of computer programming? An inflection point brought on primarily by the rise of so-called ‘virtual machines’. In ...

What is Computer Programming? Computer programming is the process that professionals use to write code that instructs how a computer, application or software program performs. At its most basic, ...

Research conclusions could inform the design of new programming languages, coding environments and coding styles, and improve understanding of the role of programming and software in science.

And we didn’t really know how to do it at that time.” Gries’ research in programming methodology involves making computer science more accessible to beginners.

After meeting Alan Turing, Mr. Brooker went to work at the University of Manchester and wrote the programming language for the first commercial computer.