Google Docs now supports additional coding languages in code blocks for Workspace accounts. New languages added include C#, HTML, CSS, and more, expanding compatibility. Admins don't need to ...

The blocks in Microsoft’s MakeCode coding language, and the blocks in Minecraft, are themselves models for the way that new learning happens through the application of concepts in an open-ended ...

Osmo Coding functions in much the same way, except that you use physical blocks to direct the actions of a character in a game. The character is called Awbie, and it loves strawberries. Indeed ...

Programming can be a lonely, abstract, and ultimately frustrating activity. Even when building the simplest of applications, you can spend hours---indeed days---in front of a computer, coding in ...

Overall, AlphaDev’s new C++ sorting algorithms are 1.7 percent more efficient than the prior methods when sorting long sequences of numbers, and up to 70 percent faster for five-item sequences.

When parents these days hear the old saying “The jobs of tomorrow haven’t been invented yet,” they tend to add, “so my child had better learn to code.” As software has redefined a range ...

Citadel Securities has hired Herb Sutter, who spent 20 years at Microsoft. Sutter is an expert in C++, a coding language that underpins most of Citadel Securities' technology. He'll lead the firm ...

It shouldn’t come as any surprise to learn that today’s generative AI large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Google Gemini are just as fluent in Python, Javascript and C++ as they are ...

In his Thursday talk, Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language, emphasized the need for three different types of introductory computer science classes.