With a severe shortage of college-trained IT workers across the U.S., what’s it going to take to get more students to pursue computer science studies? Two researchers think they have an answer: ...

After the state of New Jersey revised its computer science standards in 2020, I was part of a professional learning community tasked with helping educators in all subjects understand the computer ...

There is a mystery at the heart of Too Much Fun, the new book about the history of the Commodore 64 by the Danish academic and game designer Jesper Juul: Why is the C64—by far the best-selling home ...

Questionable and fun! The name of the game is fun new languages, after all, which kind of morphed to language features, and again to experimenting with those kinds of features in a language you ...

Yeah, COBOL is still used a lot in the financial sector... if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Yeah, that would have been hugely useful in a number of other BASICs. It was always a pain to run out of ...