This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob. Throughout the ...

Tony Brooker, the mathematician and computer scientist who designed the programming language for the world’s first commercial computer, died Nov. 20 at a nursing home in Hexham, England. He was 94.

The Computer History Museum located in Mountain View, California, today released the Apple Lisa source code, including its system and applications software.

The computer book : from the abacus to artificial intelligence, 250 milestones in the history of computer science / Simson L. Garfinkel and Rachel H. Grunspan ...

For 50 years, computer programmers have been writing code. New technologies continue to emerge, develop, and mature at a rapid pace.

For this issue, a look at the female vanguard of computer programming.

It’s fitting, then, that the first general-purpose electronic computer, ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, was introduced to the world in 1946 on Valentine’s Day.

Coding is a facet of computer programming, a process used to write instructions for what a computer, application, or software program does.

After meeting Alan Turing, Mr. Brooker went to work at the University of Manchester and wrote the programming language for the first commercial computer.