Learning to program in C on an online platform can provide structured learning and a certification to show along with your resume. Learning C can still be useful in 2026, especially if you want to ...

For her interdisciplinary thesis, Nora Graves compared two automated approaches for adding accent marks to text in the Yorùbá ...

Last week, we covered an assembly program that managed to generate both visuals and music within only 16 bytes of code, and this week we’ve got something even more arcane: the results of the 29th ...

Kharizmi helped solidify the concept of algorithms in mathematics and popularized algebra and the use of the zero.

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

Leveraging optical character recognition (OCR), layout detection, content extraction, and component-based scoring, this study offers an automated pipeline for evaluating handwritten programming and ...

Shira is eager to hear from college students and their families about how you’re feeling about the job market. Drop her a line at shira.ovide@washpost.com. A lot of students took the advice to learn ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

On February 13, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a new program to implement and enforce federal requirements that protect the confidentiality of ...

On February 13, 2026, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced its civil enforcement program to implement the updates to the Substance Use ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

Large language models (LLMs) can generate impressive data visualizations from simple requests, yet their accuracy remains underexplored. Here we present a benchmark of 293 coding tasks derived from 39 ...