An experiment by computer science researchers shows that Perl, a major commercial programming language, is no more intuitive to use than a fake language with a completely random syntax. What gives?

At a time when parents are eager to give their kids an edge in math and science, several computer programming languages have been developed specifically for children.

Now, they no longer need to. Merigoux and colleagues have created a programming language called Catala that is specifically designed to capture and execute legal algorithms. The team have already ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said that programming AI is similar to "the way you program a person" — and that "human" is the new coders' language. "The thing that's really, really quite amazing ...

Programming languages are classified as high-level or low-level languages. Translators are needed to translate programs into the machine code that a computer understands.

“Ada 2012 is the logical next step along Ada’s trailblazing path toward supporting high-integrity programming,” said S. Tucker Taft, director of language research at AdaCore.

What You’ll Learn in the Computer Science Program Gain knowledge in various computer programming languages, telecommunications and networking, operating systems, computer electronics, database systems ...