Famously, the first long-distance message Samuel Morse sent on the telegraph was “What hath God wrought?” When it comes to digital progress, it’s a question that’s still being answered. The telegraph ...

In 2022, this series was expanded into a book, edited by Torie Bosch. Read “You Are Not Expected to Understand This”: How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World here. Back in 2009, Facebook launched a ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Imagine if the stuff you used every day was written in a language you didn't understand. Well, that's ...

Whether you’re streaming a show, paying bills online or sending an email, each of these actions relies on computer programs that run behind the scenes. The process of writing computer programs is ...

What do you think there are more of: professional computer programmers or computer users who do a little programming? It’s the second group. There are millions of so-called end-user programmers.