The first known use of the word “computer” was in 1613 in a book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by English writer Richard Braithwaite. In it he said, “I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the ...

Fan fiction rarely makes a commercial splash, but an Iowa City video game developer is hoping to change that. Programmer Ryan HoltKamp is working on The 13th Doll, a game based on The 7th Guest, which ...

Mark Szymczyk wants you to program games for the Mac. For that matter, so do I! Now available on Amazon.com, Mark's book "Mac Game Programming" is a step in the right direction for small developers ...

Children change and develop quite a bit in their youth. But there are some personality traits that will likely stay constant throughout their lives. From confidence to a love of problem solving, these ...

My first computer was an Apple IIe with 128KB of RAM, no hard drive, and a 5¼ inch floppy drive. One of the top educational games back then was Rocky’s Boots, an inventive game that taught the basics ...

Every parent wonders what their child will be when they grow up. While it’s difficult to make predictions about what our kids will gravitate towards later in life, computer programmers are a special ...

On October 5, 1981, Time magazine ran a story called “Software for the Masses”—a retrospective meditation on how computing became personal. If 1970s computer ownership had been limited to hobbyists ...