Georgia Tech Announces Massive Online Master’s Degree in Computer Science

Back in the day, online programs were scams.  Then they became supplements to someone getting a real degree.  Now they are completely legit, even at the Master’s level.  Read More…

Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet for Over Two Years

Wait, what?  This already exists?  I like to think that if I lived one hundred years ago I could have imagined TV and computers.  That technology is obvious (now), right?  But this… this is weird.  Read More…

The Best Anti-Piracy Measure Ever

I’ll always have a soft spot for small game developers, but this story is different in how they used pirate technology to fight them.  Catch the lazy pirates at least.  Read More…

Do’s and don’t’s for changing the ratio of women in tech

95% of my students are male.  Where in the chain is our teaching breaking down to leave women behind?  This guy is giving a good effort to pull on his side though.  Read More…

Computer scientists develop video game that teaches how to program in Java

Uh-oh, this could put me out of a job! Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, have developed an immersive, first-person player video game designed to teach students in elementary to high school how to program in Java, one of the most common programming languages in use today. Read More

Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: Top Coders Can Now Get Agents

This is really just another way of saying recruiter, but it’s cool to see programmers getting recognition as a valuable commodity. Read More

Emscripten and New Javascript Engine Bring Unreal Engine To Firefox

Unreal Engine in your Firefox browser. This could do some crazy stuff. Read More

Linux Used Almost Exclusively at SpaceX

Interesting article about lessons learned developing software for the SpaceX program. Read More

Programming will make you a better doctor

One of many examples of why everyone should take a programming course! Read More

Gates, Zuckerberg champion computer programming in new nonprofit video

Bill Gates, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey – three people who became billionaire tech industry luminaries thanks to their computer programming abilities – appear in a new video released Tuesday by the Partovi brothers as part of their new computer science-education nonprofit, Code.org. Read More