Brian Kernighan, a professor of computer science, has recently co-written a book on the new computer language Go. Over his career, Kernighan has co-written some of the most influential books for ...

Instead, we should teach computer languages early on. Computer languages allow students to transform ideas into action. Here is a simple rule that a math teacher might describe to her students: ...

Computer coding could be the next option for students wanting to take a language class.

The history of basic computer programming languages dates back far. Learn more about the BASIC & C coding languages that got everything started.

Linguistics and computer science intertwined in the mid-20th century. Computers help linguists better understand and analyze languages and computer scientists use linguistics to advance programming.

Different computer languages manage this in different ways, though. An older language like C or C++ is designed to give the programmer a lot of power over how and when the software uses the ...

A new computer language for modeling biological phenomenon can "think" like cells and molecular mechanisms think, thereby simulating the dynamics of biological phenomenon. Through incorporating ...

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob.

Once upon a time, knowing how to use a computer was virtually synonymous with knowing how to program one. And the thing that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC.