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 ...

In this excerpt from “The Computer Boys Take Over,” historian Nathan Ensmenger explains that the first computer programmers were women because managers expected programming to be low-skill clerical ...

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 ...

Whether you're considering a career change or are just embarking on a career path, computer programming and its advantages might be the career you seek. Because computers are so common in the 21st ...

Yet another world champion has been brought low for suspected use of a banned performance-enhancing substance. Rybka, the chess-playing computer program that won the past four World Computer Chess ...

Hacking, programming, engineering, and applying computer science are all different skills, but they get mixed up often. Here are some distinctions. It’s easy to confuse a computer programmer with a ...