President Barack Obama told the world that everyone should learn how to code. And now he's putting his money where his mouth is. Earlier today, to help kick-off the annual Computer Science Education ...

Mark Gibbs explores Scratch and StarLogo, programming systems implements the metaphor for Google’s forthcoming App Inventor Last week I was discussing Android applications and concluded by mentioning ...

Ever heard of Hello World? This sample code is a programmer’s rite of passage, but what does it mean and why do we use it? Discover the program’s history and see how it reveals various language ...

Last week I was discussing Android applications and concluded by mentioning Google’s new and, as yet, un-released programming tool for the Android operating system called App Inventor for Android ...

This is a spectacular, iconoclastic book in almost every sense that matters — in the scope of its ideas, in its claims about science, in its sheer physical size, and in many other ways too, both good ...

Once we’ve built a computer, the next step is to develop an assembly language and then an assembler that can assemble our programs. In my previous column, we introduced the concept of the big-endian ...

How to use ncurses to manipulate your terminal screen. In my article series about programming for the text console using the ncurses library, I showed you how to draw text on the screen and use basic ...

Since this column began, it has discussed how a Linux driver writer can create various types of kernel drivers, by explaining the different kernel driver interfaces including TTY, serial, I2C and the ...

As promised, this part starts with a simple programming tutorial on the PIC12F675 microcontroller which shows you how to program and use it as a simple LED flasher. It’s assumed that you have ...