I have zero programming experience. But after a few minor setbacks, I was able to build a custom website in no time.

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UC Berkeley Computer Science Professor Sarah Chasins joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about coding. How did programmers code the first ever code? What remnants of the early World ...

Early on in Robert Dickson’s tenure as the chief information officer for Wichita Public Schools, he reviewed the district’s technology every five years. The pandemic cut that to three years. Then, in ...

In the hordes of students at this year’s orientation, one classic question came up again and again. “What’s your concentration?” Strikingly, I noticed that it was rare to hear of a student who only ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

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 ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

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