Computer coding ability has gotten especially hip recently. People who can’t code revere it as 21st century sorcery, while those who do it professionally are often driven to fits by it. And it was 50 ...

Employees in office settings, and on the road as well, must possess basic computer competency to perform their job duties. It is especially important for small businesses to hire office staff who are ...

This series of columns on basic computing skills was inspired by a friend who, while smart in every way, was unable to perform the simple task of copying a file on her computer from one folder to ...

Computers are everywhere these days, and to a lot of folks using a computer is second nature. However, for some people who haven't grown up with computers, some instruction is necessary to learn the ...

50 years ago today, the BASIC computer language was born as two math professors from Dartmouth College used it to help run the school's computer system for the first time. Back in the early 1960s, ...

A student completes the Minecraft-themed coding tutorial that Microsoft built with Code.org. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft wants to turn kids’ love of Minecraft into a love of computer programming ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with intuitive ...