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Things are sufficiently abysmal that computer programming ranks among 10 hardest-hit occupations of 420-plus jobs for which we have data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

An experiment by computer science researchers shows that Perl, a major commercial programming language, is no more intuitive to use than a fake language with a completely random syntax. What gives?

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Online computer programming students study a variety of advanced mathematics and how they apply to writing code, designing software and building computer applications using programming languages.

Some legal text is so highly prescribed that it functions like an algorithm. So a team of computer scientist have created a programming language that can capture and execute these laws.

This article is more than 12 years old. Maddy Petrovich, 14, of Wellesley, Mass. first started learning how to use the programming language Scratch when she was 10 years old. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) ...

What You’ll Learn in the Computer Science Program Gain knowledge in various computer programming languages, telecommunications and networking, operating systems, computer electronics, database systems ...