Creating your own programs might seem daunting. It’s a lot easier than you think.

Deep within the source code of this online multiplayer game lies an enigmatic number that puzzles and inspires experts to this day ...

Back in the 1980s, your options for writing your own code and games were rather more limited than today. This also mostly depended on what home computer you could get your hands on, which was a ...

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Is cognitive offloading harmless or does it have negative effects for cognition? A new study offers interesting insights.

And then there's agentic AI coding. When a tool can help you do four years of product development in four days, the impact is world-changing. While vibe coding has its detractors (for good reason), AI ...

Part of traveling the world as an Anglophone involves the uncomfortable realization that everyone else is better at learning ...

Until just very recently, writing software was a purely human craft, a slow and grinding process of translating logic into a myriad forms of syntax. Any developer worth their salt needs to know Java, ...

Anthropic’s agentic tool Claude Code has been an enormous hit with some software developers and hobbyists, and now the company is bringing that modality to more general office work with a new feature ...

Quantum computing is getting a lot of buzz, and for good reason. It’s not just about faster computers; it’s about solving problems we can’t even touch right now. But to actually use these powerful ...

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...

Learning to program taps into neural machinery you already use for logic. Brain scans show that after a beginner course, reading code lights up those problem solving regions. Even before any training, ...