NAMAKKAL: A loud silence engulfs the near-empty tribal hamlets at Keezhur, Melur and Kedamalai, broken by the occasional chirping of crickets and other creepy crawlers. Shrubs and bushes have taken ...

Ghana’s foundational learning system is poised for a major overhaul, with the Ministry of Education announcing plans to integrate cutting-edge subjects like Artificial Intelligence (AI), coding, and ...

In the pre-large language model (LLM) Stack Overflow era, the challenge was discerning which code snippets to adopt and adapt effectively. Now, while generating code has become trivially easy, the ...

Galley cover of Java Essentials Volume 2: Object-Oriented Programming and Beyond Dr. Lawrence Decamora, author of Java Essentials Volume 2 Dr. Lawrence Decamora combines decades of teaching experience ...

Creating simple data classes in Java traditionally required substantial boilerplate code. Consider how we would represent Java’s mascots, Duke and Juggy: public class JavaMascot { private final String ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. When the seminal Java whitepaper introduced the language in 1995, it listed seven key benefits ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...