Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about tech, video games, science and culture. “Just because when something is used by everyone, there’s always this kind ...

“Learn to code.” That three-word pejorative is perpetually on the lips and at the fingertips of internet trolls and tech bros whenever media layoffs are announced. A useless sentiment in its own right ...

If you have ever looked at C as a programming language then you have probably seen or read, like I did, “The C Programming Language” by Brian Kernighan (Fig. 1) and Dennis Ritchie. It probably did ...

The ¡Aprendamos! program at the Boys and Girls Club of Henderson County, Spanish for Let’s Learn!, is meant to provide ...

Every fall, Visible Ink has a call for submissions, and from hundreds, a selection committee chooses no more than 15 to be performed “by amazing people, mostly from Broadway, who come in and do this ...

The COBOL programming language's main strength is its ability to write a wide variety of data files useful for small business, including Microsoft Excel. Organizing the file as a comma-separated value ...

Despite its looming closure, the Iowa Youth Writing Project's fall slate is shaping up to be one of the most vibrant. In August, the University of Iowa's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences announced ...

In Writing and Democracy, students investigate a range of cultural, political, social, and artistic experiences. Leonard and Louise Riggio initiated the program through generous development grants to ...

A new programming language for image-processing algorithms yields code that's much shorter and clearer -- but also faster. Image-processing software is a hot commodity: Just look at Instagram, a ...

Welcome back to this fourth and final installment of the series. The first three parts should have been enough to get you off the ground, but a few more learning examples wouldn’t hurt. It’s also a ...