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Over time, Linux package dependencies show predator/prey...
By John Timmer | Published about 17 hours ago
You'll frequently hear references to a "software ecosyst ...
The team went back to 1993 and compiled statistics on ev ...
... PNAS, 2011. DOI: 10.10

In the same vein, programmers who pay attention to how t... written language also tend to pay a lot more attention t... You see, at its core, code is prose. Great programmers a... code monkeys; according to Stanford programming legend D...
And just li

Regardless of setting, here are the typical steps my col...
Forage: Find existing snippets of code to build my p ...
Tinker: Play with these pieces of existing code to a ...
Weld: Try to attach ("weld") pieces of existing code ...
... repeat

I believe it’s possible to construct a simple mental f... be used with any language or library and which will lead... code by default.

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Program...
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruc ...
1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is ham ...
1936 - Alan Turing invents every programming language th ...
1936 - Alon

Functional is a library for functional programming in Ja... defines the standard higher-order functions such as map,... foldl), and select (aka filter). It also defines functio... rcurry, and partial for partial function application; an... and until f

It is tempting to conclude from this record that functio... have what it takes. They may make sense for certain limi... and contain useful concepts to be imported into other la... imperative and object-oriented languages are simply bett...
Tempting as

Microsoft Research is at it again: The wily folks who cr...
Dubbed Code Space, the project allows groups to collabor ...
While still a very early concept, Code Space shows the p ...
Why the need for so many input devices, when a simple wh ...
The project

Because my work was cited as an inspiration for the Khan...
Programming is a way of thinking, not a rote skill. ...
People understand what they can see. If a programmer ...
Thus, the goals of a programming system should be:
... turn it into som

Wanted: 12 programmers to live on a remote tropical isla... to do nothing but write code.

Today's coders may know how to whip up a PHP script or a... create a mobile app for both the iPhone and Android, and... car's GPS (which has been done, it turns out). But there... predecessors knew that today's programmers don't.

Chris Coyne created a small language for design grammars... grammars are sets of non-deterministic rules to produce ... are surprisingly beautiful, often from very simple grammars.

Mayhem is a Windows-based application lets people set a ...
Receive an email reminder to winterize your house wh ...
Add an auto-save feature to a program that doesn’t ...
Pause a video automatically when you leave the room.
Automatical

Programming should take pride of place in our schools
If we don't change the way ICT is thought about and taug ...
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John Naughton
... owerPoint presentations will look like Dead Sea scrolls.

A future filled with smarter devices and robots means a ... programming. As people's devices get more complex, they'... things that are now mostly the domain of professional co... They might need to program in behaviors for personal rob...
Now, severa

Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal
[ A letter to the editor of Datamation, volume 29 number ...
The story of Mel is a related article. ]
Back in the good old days-- the "Golden Era" of computer ...

Sometimes coding rules are essential to use, especially... may depend on its correctness – code that is used ... airplane that you fly on, spacecraft that carries astro... or the nuclear power plant a few miles from where you li... the NASA’

Bill Hinshaw is not a typical 75-year-old. He divides hi... family – he has 32 grandchildren and great-grandchildr... U.S. companies avert crippling computer meltdowns.
Hinshaw, who got into programming in the 1960s when comp ...

A complete list of all major algorithms (300), in any do... to provide a ready to run program for each one, or a des... algorithm. Programming languages include Java, JavaScrip... either in direct form or generated from a Scriptol source.

Gist is a simple way to share snippets and pastes with o... are git repositories, so they are automatically versione... usable as a git repository.

With more than 10 million users, the Scratch online community is the largest online community where kids learn to program. Since it was created, a central goal of the community has been to promote “remixing” — the reworking and re...