The quality of the discussion is what sets Hacker News apart. While some platforms devolve into shouting matches, HN often encourages thoughtful responses and a willingness to engage with differing ...

Before you can get a robot to do anything useful, you need to understand how it works and the math behind its movements. It’s like learning the alphabet before you can write a novel. This section ...

My computer coding education ended in a high school classroom in the early 2000s, when I created a game in which two camels spit at one another. The experience of typing every line of code was ...

Area high school students interested in computer programming are invited to Western's campus for this fun and challenging event. Date: Nov. 15, 2025 8 a.m. Doors open. Please arrive early. 9 a.m. to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amanda Chua does it all. She has the brain of a mathematician with the soul of an artist. From excelling at math and science to writing poetry and creating music and artwork, Chua is showing us that ...

As companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs. Manasi Mishra recently graduated from Purdue ...

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 ...

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Building, which connects to the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, on a sunny afternoon in June 2025. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) The ...