Ada Lovelace was the world’s first computer programmer. Too bad nobody has that title anymore. Born in 1815, Lovelace was a 19th-century English mathematician credited with first interpreting how to ...

Alex Santarelli can point to the date, April 6, on a graph. He'd created an app to help his fellow Central York High School students access things they use on a regular basis, like their schedules ...

Inside a whirring fMRI machine, a computer programming challenge flashed across a screen suspended above a Johns Hopkins graduate student. Her eyes scanned the passage of code attempting to figure out ...

Many computer programmers know multiple languages. The range of programming languages is wide, with some languages used in specific contexts, but some more general. For example, Java can implement ...

At first glance, a 35 year-old computer programmer and a 35 year-old NFL football player would seem to have very little in common. The football player spends his time smashing people on the field ...

First computer programmers were women; they figured it out without manuals. Dec. 4, 2007 — -- At 83, Betty Jean Jennings Bartik -- a devoted bridge player and grandmother of five -- had a secret ...

Being a software programmer is one of the best jobs these days for your pocketbook and your job security, but it can be incredibly bad for your mental health. Two things are going on that are ...

The first known use of the word “computer” was in 1613 in a book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by English writer Richard Braithwaite. In it he said, “I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the ...

Expert computer programmers show higher proficiency in certain behavioral and attention skills than their novice peers. To identify the responsible brain regions, scientists used fMRI to analyze the ...

This installment’s “guest vetter” is Martin Neil Baily, now with the Brookings Institution. He was chairman of President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors and is a certified VKP (very ...

Many older computer programmers believe they are victims of discrimination; they think companies push them out in favor of younger IT hires who are perceived as more knowledgable about the latest ...

Being a programmer can be pretty cool. Although writing perfect code can sometimes drive you mad, it's the path that will inevitably lead you to build your own app at some point. According to the U.S.