What is a software developer? A developer – also known as a programmer, coder or software engineer – is an IT professional who uses programming languages to create computer software. What do software ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Sheryl Grey is a freelance writer who specializes in creating content related to education, aging and senior living, and real estate. She is also a copywriter who helps businesses grow through expert ...

Imagine the prospect of the first day in a new job as a software developer. Beyond the meetings with HR, managers and team leaders, there is also likely to be a stack of training material and ...

Creating applications, data engineering and services across PCs, mobile devices, the cloud backbone and throughout the internet of things (IoT), the developer is the artist, the keyboard is the colour ...

Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of the C++ programming language, once said that "our civilization runs on software." This statement is impressively backed by reality, in which software controls a huge ...

One of the hottest Stanford CS courses this semester embraces rather than bans AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude.

Today, computers are in everything, everywhere. This fact is making computer scientists and software engineers indispensable. They are the ones leading the way in developing the next generation ...

Sometimes you fall in love with things as a kid and never quite let them go. For some people, that means baking or chess or collections that grow through the years. In the case of Sarah Withee, she ...

A software developer has been arrested and faces charges for allegedly placing malicious code on his employer's computer servers, the Justice Department reports. A federal grand jury in Cleveland ...

is the editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. A federal court has ruled that a software developer’s computer be seized and copied after he described himself as a ...