A new model of declarative programming languages has emerged for building infrastructure as code, promising more simplicity and safety than imperative languages. In the last dozen years or so, we’ve ...

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a flexible, cross-platform editor that can be transformed into a full-blown IDE for most any language or workflow. Over the past few years, it has exploded in ...

Microsoft has released a new language server for Python called Pylance, which uses the Language Server Protocol to communicate with Microsoft's popular open-source, cross-platform code editor, Visual ...

Python might be the most popular programming language in the world, but unlike other frontrunner JavaScript, you can't run Python code in the browser. At PyCon 2022, the annual conference for its ...

Learn how to code with the best Python courses available, helping you unlock new job opportunities with the in-demand skill. Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's services team. She ...

A vulnerability in the Python programming language that has been overlooked for 15 years is now back in the spotlight as it likely affects more than 350,000 open-source repositories and can lead to ...

One of the most common questions I get from teachers and parents is: What programming language should we use to teach kids to code? Is it important to always start with block-based languages like ...

You've heard about the next generation directory protocol called LDAP (lightweight directory access protocol), and you're wondering if it's possible to write programs that can interact with it. Maybe ...

Just last year, if someone had told me I'd be able to code up my own game from scratch in a matter of weeks, I never would have believed them. Coming from a business background with zero coding ...

Last month, Adina Howe took up a post at Iowa State University in Ames. Officially, she is an assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering. But she works not in the greenhouse, but ...