A few days ago I wrote a post about what programming language you should learn first for a career in programming. This sparked a lot of conversation (much of it on Google+ submitted without reading ...

「Programming Language Influence Network」はプログラミング言語の相関図を表したサイトです。指定した言語がどの言語から影響を受けて作られたか、また他の言語にどう影響しているかの相関図が閲覧できます。 以下に使ってみた様子を載せておきます。まず ...

現代のIT関係者の間で当たり前のように使われている「プログラミング言語」という言葉の来歴について、ノーザン・アイオワ大学でコンピューターサイエンス学部の学部長を務めるユージン・ウォリングフォード氏が、調査結果をまとめています ...

Eugene Wallingford, Dean of the Department of Computer Science at Northern Iowa University, discusses the history of the term `` programming language '' commonly used by modern IT professionals.

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit purposes.

When faced with the prospect of learning to code, aspiring programmers are hit with the complexity, the arcane symbols, and the fear that they simply aren't technical enough to learn code. The initial ...