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, ...

Considering a career in computer programming? Learn about qualifications, skill sets, specializations and career paths for computer programming jobs.

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?

Silq is, its creators claim, the world’s first high-level quantum computer programming language. Here's why it's so exciting for those working in the field.

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.

Brian Kernighan, a professor of computer science, has recently co-written a book on the new computer language Go. Over his career, Kernighan has co-written some of the most influential books for ...

The C programming language has influenced many other languages. Learning C enables you to understand what’s going inside a computer in general.

Linguistics and computer science intertwined in the mid-20th century. Computers help linguists better understand and analyze languages and computer scientists use linguistics to advance programming.