Computer programming jobs involve writing and editing code, analyzing data and maintaining computer systems. Most computer programming careers offer areas of specialization that require additional ...

On a most basic level, a computer programmer writes, well, programs. Programmers will also rewrite, debug, maintain, and test (and retest) software and programs that instruct the computer to ...

Ada Lovelace was the world’s first computer programmer. Too bad nobody has that title anymore. Born in 1815, Lovelace was a 19th-century English mathematician credited with first interpreting how to ...

Computer programming is one of the most popular jobs at the moment, and if you’re a programmer you’re probably wondering about the 25 best states for computer programmers. As a writer and someone who ...

As the federal government braced for Monday’s avalanche of applications for the highly coveted H-1B work visa, immigration officials shifted some ground rules. The immigration agency said Monday it ...

Every parent wonders what their child will be when they grow up. While it’s difficult to make predictions about what our kids will gravitate towards later in life, computer programmers are a special ...

Children change and develop quite a bit in their youth. But there are some personality traits that will likely stay constant throughout their lives. From confidence to a love of problem solving, these ...

Inside a whirring fMRI machine, a computer programming challenge flashed across a screen suspended above a Johns Hopkins graduate student. Her eyes scanned the passage of code attempting to figure out ...

Okay, I have to admit, I live in something of a programming language filter bubble—among people I know, probabilistic programming languages are a regular topic of conversation. So I was quite ...

“People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock,” Ellen Ullman writes in her essay “Outside of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life.” “Nothing could be further from the ...