A video filmed by the child’s mother shows a heated argument with park security, who allegedly denied the girl access to a swing and asked the family to leave. The clip has triggered widespread anger ...

Mathly for Lua is a Lua module that turns Lua into a tiny, portable, free but powerful MATLAB and more. It provides a group of commonly used MATLAB functions and features, including linspace, zeros, ...

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 ...

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic world of quantum mechanics a century ago, they weren't trying to build ...

Today in programming language hacks we have string art rendered in BASIC. String art — also known as pin and thread art, or filography — is an art form where images are invoked by thread woven between ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sho Dewan is a career expert who covers work, top jobs, and business. AI hiring is going full steam ahead. In fact, AI-related job ...