This content originally appeared on Mashable for a US audience and has been adapted for the UK audience. Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum decided to take on a fun little side project over the ...

Sitting around with "a lot of time on my hand," Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum decided to take on a fun little side project over Christmas break in 1989: building a new programming language ...

If you want to try and learn a new skill during your free time, you might want to consider learning to code. Coding isn’t the toughest of skills to learn, and you can actually make a career out of it.