Ever heard of Hello World? This sample code is a programmer’s rite of passage, but what does it mean and why do we use it? Discover the program’s history and see how it reveals various language ...

Programming is such a key skill for the modern world that it's now taught in every UK school. However, plenty of adults have never even written an HTML tag, let alone a full program. Confident Coding ...

The Java programming language is deployed on a variety of computing platforms that application development businesses can leverage for sales. Java runs on desktop and laptop computers as well as ...

Last week I was discussing Android applications and concluded by mentioning Google’s new and, as yet, un-released programming tool for the Android operating system called App Inventor for Android ...

Once we’ve built a computer, the next step is to develop an assembly language and then an assembler that can assemble our programs. In my previous column, we introduced the concept of the big-endian ...

How to use ncurses to manipulate your terminal screen. In my article series about programming for the text console using the ncurses library, I showed you how to draw text on the screen and use basic ...

As promised, this part starts with a simple programming tutorial on the PIC12F675 microcontroller which shows you how to program and use it as a simple LED flasher. It’s assumed that you have ...