One interpretation of this graph shows Java (blue) being overtaken by C (black) over the course of the decade. What this interpretation belies is the fact that Java and the C family (C, C++, and C#) ...

First, why is Java cross-platform? Let's dig into the history of the language first. Sun Microsystems, the inventor of Java, was a popular vendor in the computer workstation market in the 1990s. As ...

Marking 30 years of Java’s evolution, Java 25 blends simplicity with enterprise power, boosting AI readiness and security to ...

James Gosling, the father of Java, one of the world's most widely used programming languages, has talked with research scientist Lex Fridman about Java's origins and his motivations for creating a ...

Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming ...

Thanks to powerful tools, the need for speed, and the shifting nature of programming itself, your next nerd fight will be over framework APIs, not syntax In the 1980s, the easiest way to start a nerd ...

Python remains a clear leader among programming languages for engineers, beating out Java, and JavaScript in IEEE Spectrum's 2021 language rankings. The publication IEEE Spectrum taps members from the ...

A few days ago I wrote a post about what programming language you should learn first for a career in programming. This sparked a lot of conversation (much of it on Google+ submitted without reading ...

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You know what they say: CS is the new econ. It feels like everyone at Columbia has taken, is taking, or plans to take at least one computer science class during their time here. If you fall into the ...