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 ...

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.

In it she outlines the fundamentals of computer programming, including data analysis, looping and memory addressing.

Most are about hardware. But, some YouTubers focus on JUST programming 8 bit computers and some on JUST certain platforms. So for example there's a guy who only talks about Applesoft BASIC.

Kids who were lucky or privileged enough (or both) to gain access to computers that ran BASIC—the VIC-20, the Commodore 64, janky Sinclair boxes in the UK—immediately started writing games ...

“In the early 1960s, it was common to think, ‘We are building a new computer, so we need a new programming language,’” David Hartley recalled in a 2017 podcast.

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.

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.

I think the ‘aha’ moment we are heading for is this: programming language doesn’t matter half as much as it used to and frankly, we should stop talking so much about them.

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