Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...

NXT:Scratch is a freeware brings a modern, Scratch-like programming experience to LEGO® NXT users. It supports Windows XP through Windows 11, keeping classic robots easy and fun to code. Built with ...

C#, Microsoft’s object-oriented, cross-platform, open source language for the .NET platform, has become the fastest-growing language on Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. C# may ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Del Norte High sophomore Nisa Thomas will be the first teen co-emcee of the international Scratch Conference, slated to be held virtually on July 24. Scratch is a free platform that helps students ...

Abstract: Learning computer programming is a challenging process. Among the current approaches for overcoming this challenge, visual programming languages (VPLs), such as Scratch, have shown very ...

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...

In kindergarten through 5th grade classrooms at Allen Jay Elementary School, students learn subjects like reading, math, and science in English, and in Urdu. The school, in High Point, N.C., offers ...

Once I started thinking about the apocalypse, it was hard to stop. An unsettling encounter with the doomsday clock that hangs over New York City’s Union Square got me frantically searching WikiHow for ...

Izzy Kallas and co-founder Kamila Turapova pose for a photo at a business event. They are current students in the Sandbox program. (Izzy Kallas) Since its creation in 2020, the BYU Sandbox program has ...

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