TIOBE Index for December 2025: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent December’s TIOBE Index lands with a quieter top tier but a livelier shuffle just beneath it. The main ...

Abstract: Teaching programming to pre-university students has attracted a great deal of attention in the last years. The benefits of teaching programming before University have been investigated by ...

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 ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Before Java, Python, and other programming languages, there was the BASIC programming language. It is important to note that programming languages existed before computers were developed. It was a way ...

“The coolest code I’ve ever written.” With these words, Bill Gates introduces a blog post that celebrates Microsoft’s 50th anniversary by looking back on how the company got started. At the bottom of ...

In a nutshell: Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in April 1975, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month. To mark the occasion, Gates has released the source code he and Allen ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

Introduction: Teaching computer programming can be challenging, especially for individuals with intellectual disability (ID) who exhibit a wide range of learning abilities and behavioral ...