Technological trends are often short-lived and have no lasting effect. New programming languages show up every year, promising faster builds and simpler syntax. Although many competitors have entered ...

Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) in programming teaching is something that still has to be explored, since in this area assessment tools that allow grading the students work are the most common ...

Java ranked third in the Tiobe Index for January 2026 at 8.71%, holding steady behind Python and C and just ahead of C++. Tiobe named C# its Programming Language of the Year for 2025 after the largest ...

Learn how to use advanced techniques like short-circuiting, parallel execution, virtual threads, and stream gatherers to maximize Java stream performance. My recent Java Stream API tutorial introduced ...

OpenAI and Google DeepMind demonstrated that their foundation models could outperform human coders — and win — showing that large language models (LLMs) can solve complex, previously unsolved ...

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Introductory programming courses are considered difficult and challenging for students. They have to focus on and develop different skills related to problem-solving and programming domains ...

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...

A software application called Interview Coder promises to help software developers succeed at technical job interviews—by surreptitiously feeding them answers to programming questions via AI.

A Northwestern competitive programming team won seventh place in the 2024 International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Mid-Central USA Regional Contest, held last month at the University of ...