The idea that learning and using certain computer languages can influence how people solve problems resonates with the famous Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, which holds that spoken languages differ in ...

I have been at Queen Mary since 2011. Within C4DM, I lead the Augmented Instruments Laboratory, a research team focused on music and human-computer interaction, especially the design and evaluation of ...

Universities with more highly respected computer science programs introduce programming concepts alongside theory in their introductory computer science courses. The Massachusetts Institute of ...

What is Computer Programming? Computer programming is the process that professionals use to write code that instructs how a computer, application or software program performs. At its most basic, ...

Learn more about the history of The Harry T. Wilks Distinguished Lecture Series. Since its inaugural lecture in 1998, the series has brought many people of national and global significance to Miami ...

How do programming languages get created, and what goes into design decisions? This question was originally answered on Quora by Keno Fischer.

The computer science department emphasized that the new sequence would focus on imperative programming and only briefly cover functional programming in CMSC 14200. The new sequence will begin with ...

An experiment by computer science researchers shows that Perl, a major commercial programming language, is no more intuitive to use than a fake language with a completely random syntax. What gives?

COBOL language The designers of COBOL broke with the terse syntax of other programming languages at the time (again, such as FORTRAN).

The BASIC programming language turns 60 Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964.