But where do you start when there are more programming languages than there are episodes of your favorite show? While some kids may be ready to tackle complex languages like C, others might prefer ...

Long before the days of laptops and smartphones, Thomas E. Kurtz worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world. Kurtz has died at 96.

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with intuitive ...

Sometimes it seems like the rules of programming are designed to make coding a chore. Here are 14 ways preprocessors can help ...