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Thanks to powerful tools, the need for speed, and the shifting nature of programming itself, your next nerd fight will be over framework APIs, not syntax In the 1980s, the easiest way to start a ...

That example may be an blatant exaggeration, but it's still very common among the general public to believe that learning programming is as simple as learning a programming language. Not so.

If you've ever wanted to dip your toe in a programming language, Codecademy allows you to learn basics of coding syntax through eight easy lessons that teach variables, letters and strings, editor ...

Many Python fans have longed for the language to adopt functional programming features. Now they can get those features without having to switch to a new Python implementation. Coconut, a newly ...

Software logic written in English-like programming syntax without regard to the actual programming language eventually used. Structured English is used to verify the business logic, which can then ...