Bjarne Stroustrup is on a mission to simplify generic programming. In a recently published paper titled “Concepts: The Future of Generic Programming,” Stroustrup makes the case for concepts as a ...

Meet Robotiky, the two-wheeled robot toy that teaches people young and old how to program. Robotiky -- described as "Scratch meets Lego Mindstorms" -- is made up of a handful of components, including ...

C++ is a general-purpose systems programming language that is now more than 40 years old, having been designed in 1979. Far from losing steam, C++ still ranks near the top of multiple programming ...

Why it matters: There's a good chance you cut your coding teeth on BASIC if you took a computer class back in the 20th century. The Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code celebrated its 60th ...

A group working on the development of the hugely popular C++ programming language has outlined a path to make the language "memory safe" -- just like its younger rival, Rust. Widespread warnings about ...

For years, the lingua franca for desktop computers was the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a.k.a. Basic. Essentially every PC had it, and just about anyone could learn to program ...