I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of the ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

I have always taken it for granted that, just as my parents made sure that I could read and write, I would make sure that my kids could program computers. It is among the newer arts but also among the ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

If you're anxious about starting your first programming class, you've come to the right place. I have four practical tips to help you tackle and break down this complex subject, even if you have no ...

Since ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence (AI) hit the public consciousness in 2022, I've been exploring how well AI chatbots can write code. At first, the technology was a novelty, akin to ...