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 ...

Until last week, my understanding of the inner machinations of computers was reduced to the “black magic and the vile sorcery of the Hobgoblins.” When my research mentor suggested I try my hand at ...

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 ...

Arlington Public Schools aims to build on the success of a coding competition for students that launched last year. The ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

In five years of writing for various audiences, Uche has learned to simplify career-focused content for ambitious learners regardless of their qualifications. Her work is published in notable ...

For computer programs and mobile applications, programmers must develop code. In order to keep things working properly, they are also involved in maintaining, debugging and troubleshooting software ...

Graduates can pursue careers in applications and systems programming, systems analysis, software development, research, database management, telecommunications and security, game programming, and ...

One of the challenges of writing about computer programming is to make it accessible to the lay reader. Another is to make it interesting at all. Ellen Ullman, author of The Bug, tackles the former ...