Long before you were picking up Python and JavaScript, in the predawn darkness of May 1, 1964, a modest but pivotal moment in computing history unfolded at Dartmouth College. Mathematicians John G.

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 ...

Understanding the core principles of computer programming is the first step to writing effective code. Learning about ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

To emphasise: the unit assumes no prior knowledge of computer programming. Students should have some prior experience of using a PC for basic email, web browsing and word processing tasks. The purpose ...

It’s Computer Science Education Week, and Code.org has launched an “Hour of Code” initiative that encourages students across the globe to spend an hour learning the basics of computer science. The ...

Google is launching a modular coding kit for kids as part of a new initiative called Project Bloks, an open-source hardware platform aimed at making computer programming accessible to children. The ...

The variable ‘pocket_money’ is used to store how much pocket money you have. Right now you have £20. As well as using fixed numbers in calculations and storing the answer in a variable, we can also ...

Programs close programSequences of instructions for a computer. are written to solve problems. To solve a problem, a program needs data input and data, or information, output. Data can be input in ...

With its attention focused on MS-DOS, Microsoft were slow to see the problems with BASIC, and that a core language devised in 1964 just wasn't up to the challenges of 80's computing. This started to ...