Computer programming is one of those disciplines that requires constant learning. Technology is advancing at a rapid rate, so much so that sometimes even the biggest experts find it challenging to keep up sometimes. Continual improvement is the only way...
Earlier this year, Google rolled out a new open-source architecture for the development of blazing-fast, mobile-friendly webpages. Known as Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), is essentially a framework that webmasters can use to build webpages. It lives up to its “accelerated”...
If you’re just getting started with coding, you’ve probably experienced the following scenario… Step 1: You say ‘I should learn to code. It’ll be fun, it’ll boost my career credentials, and if kids in schools can learn then it’ll be...
Created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994, PHP is a server-side scripting language that’s used primarily for web development. It can be embedded directly into HTML, used with web templates, content management systems (CMS) and even frameworks. The code itself is...
Developed in the mid 1990s by Japanese programmer Yukihiro Matsumoto, Ruby is a dynamic, object-oriented, general-purpose programming language. It was influenced heavily by Perl, Msalltalk, Ada and Lisp. If you’re still skeptical of Ruby, check out some of the following...
Apple has placed the final nail in Flash’s coffin. Earlier this month, the Cupertino-based tech giant announced that it would no longer use Flash as the default media player for its upcoming Safari 10 web browser. Flash has long been...
Pioneered by University of New Mexico’s computer science chairman Cleve Moler in the early 1970s, MATLAB (short for matrix laboratory) is computer programming language that supports mathematical and numerical computations, as well as matrix manipulations, function plotting, data plotting, algorithm...
No, that’s not a typo. There’s really programming language that’s simply referred to as “R.” Created by statistician and computer programming John Chambers while working for Bell Labs in the early 1990s, R is a programming language that’s closely aligned...
Pioneered by Swiss computer scientist and programmer Martin Odersky, Scala is a general-purpose programming language that boasts a strong static type. It was designed to satisfy many of the shortcomings of Java, supporting interchangeable libraries between the two languages. Scala...
Everyone says JavaScript has transformed web development, and that its libraries are obliterating long established programming languages. BUT, everyone also says that most websites still rely on PHP. Doesn’t really add up, does it? PHP and similar languages have been...