More than 6,000 hopefuls from around the world entered Facebook’s programming challenge, the Hacker Cup, in January. Three months later, just 25 finalists went head-to-head in a three-hour battle for ...

Two weeks ago someone ran a poll on Hacker News asking what the readers’ favorite programming language was. Yesterday (April 5) I took a look back at the poll to see who came out on top. I wasn’t ...

The programming bootcamp programs are riding a wave of popularity from the recent learn-to-code push. The utility of them is largely lost on the people who know just how many free resources are ...

As a little girl, Erica Sandbothe loved making things -- by sewing, drawing, weaving, painting, and whittling, she realized she could fashion just about anything. What she didn’t realize, however, was ...

This is a pretty large outlier. Most CS college grads in most of the country start in the 50-70k range depending on your specialization. If you live on the coasts, in a major tech hub (looking at you ...