For many digital products, poor user interface design and UX can sink an app’s fortunes even if the underlying engineering is powerful and innovative. (Remember Color?) But what about the interfaces ...

Open-ended, community based, and collaborative, “esolangs” serve as a reminder that digital art has other histories and other futures. Matthias Lutter, “helloworld-pietbig.gif.” This is a Piet program ...

What are the first steps when using multiple programming languages? What are the final steps needed with applications written in multiple languages? In Part 2 of this series, MathWorks' Heather Gorr ...

How good are you at identifying programming languages? Some programming languages you may not know about. No one programming language rules them all. There are literally hundreds to consider. Some ...

Computer programming is not typically taught in elementary schools, but there’s no reason it can’t be, say researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab. They have designed a ...

Many computer programmers know multiple languages. The range of programming languages is wide, with some languages used in specific contexts, but some more general. For example, Java can implement ...

We ran a piece last year summarizing an IEEE study of programming-language popularity based on job listings. This article fostered conversation, including debates about whether the languages IEEE used ...