In early 2023, Matt Welsh wrote an opinion piece in Communications of the ACM that described programmers as dinosaurs waiting for the meteor to hit. Welsh, now director of AI Systems at Palantir ...

Knowing how to program a computer is good for you, and it’s a shame more people don’t learn to do it. For years now, that’s been a hugely popular stance. It’s led to educational initiatives as ...

Iteration is the process of repeating steps. For example, a very simple algorithm for eating breakfast cereal might consist of these steps: put cereal in bowl add milk to cereal spoon cereal and milk ...