What does it take to be an expert in computer programming? This question was originally answered on Quora by Eric Pepke.

What is Computer Programming? Computer programming is the process that professionals use to write code that instructs how a computer, application or software program performs. At its most basic, ...

How do programming languages get created, and what goes into design decisions? This question was originally answered on Quora by Keno Fischer.

What is a programming language? To discuss why something is or is not a programming language, we must establish a baseline definition of what a computer programming language is. To do that, we must ...

Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?

Though I did find it fascinating to learn to think the way computers do, there seemed to be something fundamentally backward about programming a computer that I just couldn’t get over: Wasn’t ...

Learning to program requires mastering the nitty-gritty of code syntax. Generative AI turns out to be good at that. Adding AI to intro programming courses frees students to focus on problem-solving.