A software engineer in the UK claims to have developed a system that enables people to write a program using everyday language. This week's New Scientist reports on the software developed by a Bob ...

It's long been said that the untapped mine of videogame revenue is the elusive "girl gamer," hence publishers' drive to own a piece of the casual-games pie (Bejeweled, Tetris, etc.). But a new ...

But Codecademy isn’t resting on its laurels. It has unveiled a new iteration of its service called “Code Year 2012.” Like the standalone site that preceded it, Code Year is no loud, flashy ...

But Vikram Adve, a programming-language researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, remains sceptical. "Every programming language that I have heard of has a well-defined syntax ...