Intro to Programming courses at NC State still have a no-AI policy. Heckman and Roberts are committed to that, unlike Jordan.

Presumably aimed at children, NHK World’s Texico program teaches the main ideas about programming without actually using a ...

Starting your coding journey can feel overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be. From your first 'Hello World' to understanding Boolean logic and using the command line, small steps build big skills.

The new trend of "vibe coding" allows people to program software without writing a single line of code. Now, a new study by ...

Long before silicon chips, a Victorian mathematician dreamed of a machine that could run any algorithm imaginable, and in ...

Shira is eager to hear from college students and their families about how you’re feeling about the job market. Drop her a line at shira.ovide@washpost.com. A lot of students took the advice to learn ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

Businesses love that they can use AI to replace those pesky, expensive developers. For example, Atlassian just laid off 10% of its workers, about 1,600 jobs, to throw more money into AI. Block ...

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

Apple’s Mac mini is back in the AI headlines. Last month, Perplexity released its own version of the OpenClaw “personal AI assistant” idea with a feature called Perplexity Computer. Now the company is ...

PCWorld reports that Perplexity Computer is a new agentic AI tool that functions as a digital coworker, utilizing multiple AI models like Claude Opus and Gemini simultaneously. The cloud-based system ...