Computer languages allow students to transform ideas into action. Here is a simple rule that a math teacher might describe to her students: If the number is greater than 9, carry the 10’s place ...

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Kernighan, who earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Princeton in 1969, began working with computer languages as a graduate student. Before returning to the University as a professor in 2000, ...

This Computer Language Is Feeding Hacker Values Into Young Minds. At 10, Scratch is a popular tool to teach kids programming. But its real glory is how it imparts lessons in sharing, ...

“The ability to interpret computer code is a remarkable cognitive skill that bears parallels to diverse cognitive domains, including general executive functions, math, logic, and language ...

While many of us were busy enjoying the onset of spring weather, the Texas State Board of Education quietly adopted criteria that threaten the ...

The dominant languages of the mainframe computer era had similar origins: FORTRAN emerged from IBM, and COBOL was largely based on Grace Hopper’s Flow-matic, created for Remington Rand’s Univac.

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 ...

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No. And high schools shouldn’t treat it that way. By William Egginton Dr. Egginton is a professor of the humanities. Maryland’s legislature is considering a bill to allow computer coding ...

Programming quantum computers is becoming easier: computer scientists at ETH Zurich have designed the first programming language that can be used to program quantum computers as simply, reliably ...

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 ...