The myth of the computer is literally disintegrating in front of your very eyes. Next week we will talk about some more details. To be continued but only one more week about programming… ...

The tutorial, which is available now for free, walks students through 14 levels. It looks and feels like the Minecraft game that kids are so familiar with, but they have to use basic computer ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone.

After BASIC, in the early 1970s, Niklaus Wirth developed Pascal, another language meant to solely be a tool to teach students computer programming concepts. “This language was not really developed to ...

Sphero’s launched a cute mini-car robot that teaches kids about the basics of computer programming.

Me, when I started programming again in the 2010s—after a 25-year gap—I turned instead to newer languages like Python and JavaScript. Every once in a while, though, I’ll hunt down an ...

Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated. The first generation mainframe computers were essentially programmed as they were assembled, like a jigsaw puzzle with ...

As I wrote two weeks ago before I got a vicious summer cold and couldn’t write for the last week, a computer consists of input sensor of whatever you want to measure, and comparator that ...