decent knowledge of linux command line interface decent knwoledge of a programming language ( C and/or C++ but even Fortran is fine) decent knowledge of scripting language ( python is fine but bash ...

You don't need fancy hardware to get started on your coding journey. A low-spec computer will likely be more than you need to ...

Anyone who's touched GIMP, Krita, or Inkscape knows Linux is anything but a barren wasteland. The open-source creative world ...

Aider is a “pair-programming” tool that can use various providers as the AI back end, including a locally running instance of ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

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 ...

Once I started thinking about the apocalypse, it was hard to stop. An unsettling encounter with the doomsday clock that hangs over New York City’s Union Square got me frantically searching WikiHow for ...

Leo Porter receives funding from the National Science Foundation and receives compensation for sales of the book "Learn AI-Assisted Python Programming." Daniel Zingaro receives funding from the ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...

As a programmer, my primary tool is my operating system, and for years, Linux has been my go-to choice for programming. Linux offers a combination of flexibility, security, and efficiency that Windows ...