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Please stop treating coding tutorials as the best way to learn programming

Don’t get me wrong, coding tutorials are a fantastic place to start to learn programming. I have done my fair share of ...
InfoWorld

8 old programming languages developers won’t quit

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages ...
Fox News

Cook County in Illinois establishes permanent guaranteed income program

The second-largest county in the United States has established a permanent guaranteed basic income program after the success of a previous pilot version. The Cook County Board of Commissioners ...
IEEE

Using an Online Serious Game to Teach Basic Programming Concepts and Facilitate Gameful Experiences for High School Students

Abstract: Teaching programming to pre-university students has attracted a great deal of attention in the last years. The benefits of teaching programming before University have been investigated by ...
CBC.ca

Ottawa ‘isn't interested’ in funding P.E.I.’s guaranteed basic income pilot, minister says

Prince Edward Island's social development minister says the federal government isn't interested in funding the province's guaranteed basic income pilot project — at least not right now. It’s been ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Ireland Makes a Program Offering Basic Income for Artists Permanent

Should a country financially support its artists? That’s the question that Ireland sought to answer with a pilot program that ran between 2022 and 2025, during which the government provided 2,000 ...
CBC.ca

Ireland is implementing basic income for artists. Could Canada do something similar?

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Visual artist Elinor ...
GitHub

A portable 6502 assembler with BBC Micro style syntax

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, ...
PC World

Microsoft’s first-ever programming language was just open-sourced

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 ...
ZDNet

MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation - now you can download it for free

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 ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

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 ...