Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Most students know how to work a computer. But do most students know how a computer works? No, says Richard Weiss, a visiting assistant professor of computer science. That’s why he created a course in ...

Classes and objects in Java must be initialized before they are used. You’ve previously learned that class fields are initialized to default values when classes are loaded, and that objects are ...

Constructors play a key role in all object-oriented programming languages, and Java is no exception. Every class a Java developer creates needs a constructor. Constructors perform numerous important ...

If you're a young person who is thinking about becoming a computer programmer but can't afford college, you might think about skipping college altogether, says Ryan Carson, co-founder of an online ...