Ryan McGrath writes about Scratch, developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at MIT. "Scratch is a graphical programming environment implemented in Squeak that works in a very Lego-like fashion. read more » DiscussBury
"Red Hat, Intel, Aptana, and JetBrains are unveiling various software development efforts this week, ranging from support for the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to a PHP IDE and a Language-Oriented Progra read more » DiscussBury
"GNOME's Vala programming language lets you use the GLib2 object system at the heart of the GNOME desktop without having to do object-oriented programming in ANSI C. Unlike Mono or Java, a Vala pro read more » DiscussBury
"Google's new App Engine uses Python as its primary programming language. Ars goes in search of the best Python programming resources on the web." read more » DiscussBury
Joab Jackson reports on the major changes arriving with Python 3.0. Language Originator/Maintainer Guido van Rossum decided a break with backwards compatibility was necessary in order to move the language forward on a firm foundation. read more » DiscussBury
"An major electronic voting system vendor has changed its story in an attempt to explain how its machines dropped hundreds of votes in Ohio's March primary elections, saying it was a programming error..." read more » DiscussBury
Programmers are a great example of thinking outside the box because, well… programmers can actually create the box. Here are some of the ways that we can learn from programmers to boost our creativit read more » DiscussBury
