Because HTML looks easy and lacks features like formal conditional logic and Turing-completeness, it’s often dismissed as not a programming language. “That’s not real code; it’s just ...

Developers have every reason to not document their work unless they are forced to — and IT managers have every reason to not ...

From Underdocumenters to flat-out Fakers, the world of software development is full of characters. Here, InfoWorld's Peter Wayner offers 13 developer personality profiles based on coding style.

Computer programmers create, modify, and test the code, forms, and scripts that allow computer applications to run.

A new technology called Codex generates programs in 12 coding languages and even translates between them. But it is not a threat to professional programmers.