Abstract: Increasing the effectiveness of programming education has emerged as an important goal in teaching programming languages in the last decade. Automatic evaluation of the correctness of the ...

Computer coding captured Neth Dharmasiri's 11-year-old imagination when his father handed him a beginner's guide to Python — one of the world's most popular coding languages. "Here I am, six years ...

AI is changing the game for programming languages. According to a new report, Python holds the top spot while JavaScript drops. The reason? "Vibe coding" with AI assistants. Python holds the top spot ...

The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Abstract: Large language models are also increasingly used in education, both by students and teachers. Newly introduced LLM-based tools, such as Codex, Code Llama, and Microsoft’s Copilot, show that ...

Google announced significant changes to language targeting settings in Google Ads search campaigns. "By the end of 2025, the language targeting setting will be removed from Google Ads Search campaigns ...

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...

For all the world’s linguistic diversity, human languages still obey certain universal patterns. These run deeper than grammar and syntax; they’re rooted in statistical laws that predict how ...