Design, code, and test software products – with the big picture in mind. Think financial software, airline ticketing systems or information databases. As a software engineer, your expertise in ...

The University of Washington's Allen School is rethinking how to train the next generation of software engineers in an ...

Do genes behave like lines of computer code? Our April puzzle discussed ways in which genes hold true to this analogy: They have control structures commonplace in computer programs, such as “if-then” ...

For decades, a trite piece of advice has been offered to anyone unfortunate enough to find themselves out of work: Learn to code. After all, the world seems to have an endless demand for software ...

Software is a set of instructions, written in computer code, that tells a computer how to behave or how to perform a specific task. Software usually comes in the form of commercial programs (like ...

A computer programmer can now use English to describe what they want their software to do, and OpenAl’s generative Al model will automatically generate the corresponding computer code, in your ...

Recently, there's been much debate over whether or not everyone should learn to code. Software engineer Yevgeniy Brikman says that this is the wrong question: there's a huge difference between ...

Neuroscientists have found reading computer code does not rely on the regions of the brain involved in language processing. Instead, it activates the 'multiple demand network,' which is also ...

“If you write the same program in PHP or C++ ,” says Andersen, “you’ll find the C++ version takes ten times as many lines of code to write, making it harder, but the program in C++ runs ...

Diana Navarro loves to code, and she's not afraid to admit it. But the 18-year-old Rutgers University computer science major knows she's an anomaly: Writing software to run computer programs in ...

A British after-school club which teaches computer coding to children is going global. Richard Garner hears how the 13,500 youngsters currently taking part are only the beginning.