Donald Knuth wrote an entire volume about the subject in his “The Art of Computer Programming” series; you weren’t a serious programmer unless you at least wanted to buy that book.

Let’s think about making programs themselves adapt. This has been called adaptive computing by some. And no, I’m not talking about agile programming or adaptive programming. Thinking adaptively can ...

One of the newest approaches is Mob Programming, an outgrowth of Pair programming, an Agile technique where two programmers work together, sharing a single computer and taking turns at the keyboard.

A computer scientist has developed new techniques that make it easier to combine programming languages. Thanks to these techniques, software is no longer sensitive to the most common method of ...

Donald E. Knuth is well known for his pioneering work on algorithms and computer programming techniques. He is also known for his invention of the TEX and METAFONT systems for computer typesetting ...

Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

Computer scientists hacked an electronic voting machine and stole votes using a malicious programming approach that had not been invented when the voting machine was designed. The scientists employed ...

What old-school programming skills are you glad you don’t need today? Tell us in the comments. Esther Schindler has been writing about technology since 1992, and she started programming in 1973.