The native just-in-time compiler in Python 3.15 can speed up code by as much as 20% or more, although it’s still experimental ...

UC Berkeley Computer Science Professor Sarah Chasins joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about coding. How did programmers code the first ever code? What remnants of the early World ...

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...

“Vibe coding,” a form of software development that involves turning natural language into computer code by using artificial intelligence (AI), has been named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year for ...

Learning to program taps into neural machinery you already use for logic. Brain scans show that after a beginner course, reading code lights up those problem solving regions. Even before any training, ...

Summary: Learning to code doesn’t require new brain systems—it builds on the ones we already use for logic and reasoning. Researchers found that when people learned programming, the same ...

Recent years have seen a huge shift to online services. By necessity, remote jobs have skyrocketed, and the tech industry has ballooned. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, software developer ...

Qiang Tang receives funding from Google via Digital Future Initiative to support the research on this project. Moti Yung works for Google as a distinguished research scientist. Yanan Li is supported ...

Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi during an event in Seattle in July, announcing a new “Hour of AI” campaign to demystify AI in the spirit of the group’s past “Hour of Code” initiatives. (GeekWire Photo / ...

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UK banks are still using software code that was written in the 1960s and 1970s, with only a handful of employees who understand them. According to a survey of 200 UK banks, 16% rely on software from ...

Some of Julie York’s high school computer science students are worried about what generative artificial intelligence will mean for future careers in the tech industry. If generative AI can code, then ...