Coding is not just for the engineer or math wiz. New research hints at the cognitive bases of learning computer programming and could make it more accessible.

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 ...

Programming them required deep mathematical knowledge to translate instructions into pages of numerical code on punched cards. That was the world that Dartmouth College math professors John Kemeny ...