Knowing how to program a computer is good for you, and it’s a shame more people don’t learn to do it. For years now, that’s been a hugely popular stance. It’s led to educational initiatives as ...

Bradley Beach Elementary School students Kasey Minsky, far left, and Thomas Sexsmith work on a program in their technology class. Microsoft founder Bill Gates got his first exposure at age 13.

If you are a very large, rich technology company today, it seems it is no longer enough to have your own humongous data centers, luxurious buses, and organic lunch bars. You need your very own ...

A controversial plan from a Broward County Democrat to require high schools to offer computer coding courses and let students count them toward foreign language requirements was heralded Thursday as ...

Nova High School students are among the first in the nation to speak a new language. And only computers will understand them. The language is called Scheme and it is used to program computers. Scheme ...

In the last three decades, computers have changed our world beyond recognition. And underpinning that technological revolution has been the language that computers speak – the language of computer ...

Understanding Microsoft Q# What is Microsoft Q#? Microsoft Q# (pronounced ‘Q sharp’) is a programming language made ...

The best class I took in college was on the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Until that point, I had avoided philosophy of language as simply being too esoteric and hermetic to be of use. David Pears, ...

No. And high schools shouldn’t treat it that way. By William Egginton Dr. Egginton is a professor of the humanities. Maryland’s legislature is considering a bill to allow computer coding courses to ...

ON JULY 20th, Kyle Wiens, who runs two technology companies, wrote a blog post for Harvard Business Review titled "I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why." The nub: If you think an ...