When I was new to programming, I focused way too much on learning the syntax, especially the brackets, the semicolons, and ...

The key themes that defined the year behind us will also shape the one ahead. The most-read articles of 2025 tracked a return ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

Strange dynamic programming and scripting language that performs mathematical computations on a connected Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040) through UART connectivity. This is a softaware component of the ...

Victor Kuperman receives funding from NSERC, as Canada Research Chair in Psycholinguistics (Tier 2). Nadia Lana receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Olga Parshina ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...

Kotlin is a modern language that has seen a groundswell of developer enthusiasm over the last few years. This popularity is thanks in large part to its highly expressive syntax, which includes ...

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...

We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released their annual ...

Assembly is the lowest level human-readable programming language. Today, it is used for precise control over the CPU and memory on the bare metal hardware of a computer. Learn the basics Assembly with ...

Each month, the Columbia Public Library offers selections from its collection related to a current best-seller or hot topic. Public Services Librarian Seth Smith compiled this month’s selections. Many ...