Quirks aside, JS is the most accessible language to learn.

Nowadays, "basic" has a very different and derogatory Urban Dictionary-style meaning. Fifty years ago on this very day, however, it was the name given to a new computer-programming language born in a ...

Thanks to its versatility, Java is one of the most leading programming languages in the world. It's also one of the top choices for Android app development. Yet, it's one of the easiest languages to ...

Ah yes, my first programming language on trash-80. I wouldn't go back tho. However, I would take Basic any day over Cobol. I'm getting really tired of migrating old code from the 70s. Same. I bought a ...

Back in 1964, computers were enormous, expensive, and hidden away in air-conditioned rooms. And that was just fine, because they were also horribly complex: only scientists, mathematicians and highly ...

For years, the lingua franca for desktop computers was the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a.k.a. Basic. Essentially every PC had it, and just about anyone could learn to program ...

I'd like to take a brief moment to introduce you to a small project at Microsoft that has received very little press: Small Basic. Developed by Microsoft employee Vijaye Raji, the Small Basic language ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. Programming is a common language used in software industry and with the release of MetaTrader trading platform, ...

Sometimes programming project ideas are right under your nose.

Boxee is calling on its customers to speak out against a proposed policy change from the FCC that would allow cable operators to encrypt all of their programming, forcing the use of set-top boxes or ...