Ada Lovelace was the world’s first computer programmer. Too bad nobody has that title anymore. Born in 1815, Lovelace was a 19th-century English mathematician credited with first interpreting how to ...

Predicting the future is a dangerous game. I also think that it's hard to separate what I want to happen from what will. Twenty years ago, people in technology thought that (a) the Internet would be ...

Whether you're considering a career change or are just embarking on a career path, computer programming and its advantages might be the career you seek. Because computers are so common in the 21st ...

Programmers write, test, and troubleshoot code for software and applications. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects a 10% decline in U.S. programmer employment between 2020 and 2030, due to ...

Even recently, programming was considered a hot profession with almost limitless opportunities for making it big. How quickly things change. Today, programmers typically need to beef up their skill ...

OpenAI alum Andrej Karpathy wrote on X that his failure to fully claim the 10x boost of new tools felt like a "skill issue." ...

“Women are ‘naturals’ at computer programming.” So said the pioneering programmer Grace Hopper in a 1967 Cosmopolitan article. Programming, she explained, is “just like planning a dinner”: It requires ...

Film festival programmers search far and wide for the best films for their audience. They're also often the ones who host the post-screening Q&As. (Juliette Toma / For The Times) Lili Rodriguez’s ...

Becoming a good programmer is incredibly difficult and it doesn't happen quickly. We can't expect to plant some trees and have 2000-year-old redwoods grow overnight, regardless of the demand for them.

AI chief, Andrej Karpathy, warns software engineers face a seismic shift as AI reshapes coding. He admits feeling behind, ...

STANFORD, Calif.--It's not every computer science class that opens with a poem. But on a recent June day at Stanford University, khaki-clad senior Jeff Keltner stood before his classmates, cleared his ...