If you are planning a trip through several cities and want to find the shortest route, you resort to algorithms, a well-defined sequence of deterministic operations. This article accompanies the ...

TIOBE Index for January 2026: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent January’s TIOBE Index begins the year with familiar names still setting the pace, but the underlying ...

Not everyone can declare themselves “benevolent dictator for life” of a company, but such was the nature of Guido van Rossum, the Dutch programmer who invented an entire programming language from ...

So, you want to get into Python programming, huh? It’s a pretty popular language, and for good reason. Lots of people are looking for good resources to learn it, especially free ones. We found a bunch ...

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In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

Thinking about learning to code? Python is a great place to start, and this guide is here to help you get going. We’ll cover the basics, from setting things up to writing your first lines of code.

VintageApple has long been a fantastic collection of retro Apple and Mac materials, including old magazines, catalogs, and user guides, and now they have added a whopper collection of over 150 vintage ...

Dan Pelzer left behind a handwritten reading list of 3,599 books when he died in July. His family originally wanted to hand out printed copies of the list at his funeral, but each copy would have been ...

Microsoft’s Copilot generative AI is popping up on the web, in mobile apps, in the Edge browser, and especially in Windows. But just what exactly is it? Here’s everything you need to know. I've been ...

The Python interpreter provides you with an environment for experimentation and observation—the Python shell, where we work in interactive mode. It’s a great way to get your feet wet. Figure 1: The ...

Physical media fans, this is a preorder well worth picking up for your collection: Monty Python and the Holy Grail is getting a 50th anniversary 4K steelbook (see here at Amazon). Huzzah! The beloved ...