Ada Lovelace was the world’s first computer programmer. Too bad nobody has that title anymore. Born in 1815, Lovelace was a 19th-century English mathematician credited with first interpreting how to ...

On a most basic level, a computer programmer writes, well, programs. Programmers will also rewrite, debug, maintain, and test (and retest) software and programs that instruct the computer to ...

In 1847, at the age of just twenty-seven, Ada Lovelace became the world’s first computer programmer—more than a century before the first computer was even built. This almost sounds like a myth, or the ...

Being a programmer can be pretty cool. Although writing perfect code can sometimes drive you mad, it's the path that will inevitably lead you to build your own app at some point. According to the U.S.

Alex Santarelli can point to the date, April 6, on a graph. He'd created an app to help his fellow Central York High School students access things they use on a regular basis, like their schedules ...

Every parent wonders what their child will be when they grow up. While it’s difficult to make predictions about what our kids will gravitate towards later in life, computer programmers are a special ...

Many computer programmers know multiple languages. The range of programming languages is wide, with some languages used in specific contexts, but some more general. For example, Java can implement ...

Being a software programmer is one of the best jobs these days for your pocketbook and your job security, but it can be incredibly bad for your mental health. Two things are going on that are ...

Expert computer programmers show higher proficiency in certain behavioral and attention skills than their novice peers. To identify the responsible brain regions, scientists used fMRI to analyze the ...

This installment’s “guest vetter” is Martin Neil Baily, now with the Brookings Institution. He was chairman of President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors and is a certified VKP (very ...

First computer programmers were women; they figured it out without manuals. Dec. 4, 2007 — -- At 83, Betty Jean Jennings Bartik -- a devoted bridge player and grandmother of five -- had a secret ...

Decades ago, accountants kept financial records manually, using paper and pencil to enter transactions. Accounting machines followed by increasingly complex technology served the needs of businesses ...