An introduction to different programming paradigms with a focus on the functional paradigm – lists, recursion, lazy-evaluation, higher-order functions, currying and lambda expressions. The course ...

Many people who teach programming languages claim that 'if you can learn one language, you can easily learn a new language.' However, Mark Guzdial, a professor of electrical engineering and computer ...

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This article contains interviews with senior lecturer Richard Pattis and Professor Dr. Crista Lopes of the school of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine; Google software engineer Edward Lin ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Alfred Vaino Aho and Jeffrey David Ullman recipients of the 2020 ACM A.M. Turing Award for fundamental algorithms and theory underlying ...

Programming theory: A waste of time, or key to your dream coding job? Your email has been sent Many big tech companies still expect developers to have an understanding of programming fundamentals, ...

Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python's syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than ...

While it takes just a few keystrokes and mouse clicks to post a tweet on Twitter or “friend” someone on Facebook, it may require thousands of lines of code to accomplish the task. Dog, a new ...