TL;DR: Learn to code with Microsoft Visual Studio Professional plus beginner-friendly programming courses for $39.97 (MSRP $1,999). One of the biggest hurdles for new developers isn’t learning ...

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a software developer with a passion for making and electronics. I do a lot of things and here is where I document my learning in order to be able to inspire other people to make ...

The whiteboard in Professor Mark Stehlik’s office at Carnegie Mellon University still has the details of what turned into a computer science program for high school students. Stehlik and colleague ...

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5-Codex, a new, fine-tuned version of its GPT-5 model designed specifically for software engineering tasks in its AI-powered coding assistant, Codex. The release is part of a ...

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 ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Getting into competitive programming can feel like a lot at first. You’re trying to solve problems, make your code run fast, and not use too much memory. It’s a bit like a sport. But with tools like ...

Abstract: Basic Programming Practice (BPP), as an introductory course for computer science majors, aims to enable students to have basic programming skills and lay a foundation for subsequent advanced ...