Motivating Adult Learners by Introducing Programming Concepts with Scratch

Scratch is a big deal

While none of us were paying attention, Scratch has transformed from a programming language for kids to a massive online community of self-guided, student-pr...

Learnable Programming

Here's a trick question: How do we get people to understand programming?

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

The conclusion is that either people are in a big rush to learn about programming, or that programming is somehow fabulously easier to learn than anything else. Felleisen et al. give a nod to this trend in their book How to Design Programs, when they say "Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are dummies." The Abtruse Goose comic also had their take.

The traits of a proficient programmer

Bridging the gap between competence and proficiency

Programming as Theory Building: Why Senior Developers Are More Valuable Than Ever

Peter Naur's 1985 theory of programming explains why experience matters more in the age of AI-generated code

On learning programming in an age of LLMs

Open answers to a reader's letter.

Older Adults Learning Computer Programming: Motivations, Frustrations, and Design Opportunities

Online videos are a promising medium for older adults to learn. Yet, few studies have investigated what, how, and why they learn through online videos. In this study, we investigated older adults’ motivation, watching patterns, and difficulties in using ...

Learning to code is overrated: An accomplished programmer would rather his kids learn to read and reason

Mayor de Blasio is winning widespread praise for his recent promise that, within 10 years, all of New York City’s public schoolchildren will take computer science classes. But as a career programmer who founded two successful software…

The Most Important Non-Programming Skills for Programmers

Skills for programmers that are so much more important than any language, library, or framework

Small Programming Tricks

A lot of effective engineering comes from the accumulation of small nuggets of knowledge.

I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed | James Randall

I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things

We should rethink how we teach people to code | deadSimpleTech

It's fair to say that the tech industry at the moment is not in a good place. Software engineers tend to be detached, demotivated and unwilling to care much about the work they're doing beyond their paycheck. Code quality is poor on the whole, made worse by the current spate of vibe coding and whatever other febrile ideas come out of Sam Altman's brain. Much of the software that we write is either useless or actively hurts people. And the talented, creative people that we most need in the industry are pushed to the margins of it.

Its Time for a New Programming Language

Today, when compared to any other point in programming history, we find ourselves spoiled for choice when it comes to programming…

Teaching Programming for First-Year Data Science

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What I've Learnt After Making My First Hobby Game

A lot of people (myself included) get into software development because of computer games — as a kid, I was amazed at computer games and always curious about how it was made. However, after finally getting into the industry, most people (myself included) end up not doing game development.