Software is a messy business. Last March the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation publicly abandoned a $170 million software overhaul because of unforeseen technical problems.

The program has been a long time in the making for the UNSW research team. In 2007, Dr Ryan attempted to get a computer to understand, and then reproduce, a page from children's book 'The Tale of ...

A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 11, 2010, Section B, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: In Using Software to Write a Will, a Lawyer Is Still Helpful.

We write a computer program because we want a computer or computing device to complete a task. This task might be part of a larger project, or it might be a way to solve a problem.

Test programs for errors and fix the faulty lines of code Update and expand existing programs Write programs in languages such as C++ and Java What Are 4 Skills a Computer Programmer Should Have? BLS ...

Let it Code, Let it Code: Obama Writes 'Frozen' Computer Program President Obama kicked off Computer Science Education Week at the White House on Monday by writing a single line of JavaScript.