Who are you and what do you do in the School? I am a Reader in Digital Media and a member of the Centre for Digital Music. I have a PhD in music composition from the University of Pennsylvania and an ...

Within the framework of MIT's course 1.00: Introduction to Computers and Engineering Problem Solving, this paper describes an innovative project entitled: Studio 1.00 that integrates lectures with ...

For decades, fierce debates have raged over the benefits of different programming languages over others: Java vs. C++; Python vs. Ruby; Flask vs. Django. While often waged with fervor by computer ...

The focus of the course is the rigorous analysis of programming languages. Where COMP_SCI 321 looks at languages through the lens of interpreter-based implementation, this course strips the languages ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Amy Ko is a professor of computer science and director of the Code and Cognition Lab at the Information School at the University of Washington in Seattle. I had many exciting plans for the end of my ...

Zoom:https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/98021030606. Passcode is CU Boulder ZIP code (one that ends in 9). Now let’s extend this analogy to programs and programming ...

For many digital products, poor user interface design and UX can sink an app’s fortunes even if the underlying engineering is powerful and innovative. (Remember Color?) But what about the interfaces ...

The web would be a much more secure place if not for the vulnerability built right into a common coding practice: pasted-together strings of database commands (usually for either SQL queries or ...

How do programming languages get created, and what goes into design decisions? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better ...