Blockstream is introducing Simplicity, a new programming language for blockchain-based smart contracts, intended for inclusion in Blockstream’s sidechains and eventually in Bitcoin. The new language ...

Have you wanted to get into GPU programming with CUDA but found the usual textbooks and guides a bit too intense? Well, help is at hand in the form of a series of increasingly difficult programming ...

Mark Gibbs explores Scratch and StarLogo, programming systems implements the metaphor for Google’s forthcoming App Inventor Last week I was discussing Android applications and concluded by mentioning ...

When the FORTRAN programming language debuted in 1957, it transformed how scientists and engineers programmed computers.

THE use of function blocks for programming of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) is gaining wider acceptance. Rather than the classic “contact and coil” representation of ladder diagram or relay ...

Why can't programmers program? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by Lionell Pack, Software ...

The “learn to code” mantra is becoming more and more mainstream, abetted by sites like Codeacademy. Journalism in particular seems to have a special interest in coding, and even some adjacent skills; ...

“Everyone has annoying tasks in their job that you wish you could hire someone else to do, and at this point, you could automate it,” Colt Sliva said at SMX Next. “Everyone has annoying tasks in their ...

Nvidia's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, has slammed Intel's unreleased OneAPI software programming approach. During the company's Q2 2019 earning's call, Huang explained that he doesn't "really know how one ...

Last week I was discussing Android applications and concluded by mentioning Google’s new and, as yet, un-released programming tool for the Android operating system called App Inventor for Android ...