Programming is an exercise in learning how to learn. Start small, practise often and don’t be afraid to make mistakes, advises Atma Ivancevic.

In “ Please Don’t Learn to Code,” the author makes a compelling case as to why courses and bootcamps for everyday people to learn programming aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.

Mastering the C programming language - a classic code environment used to build software, apps, and whole operating systems - is a great skill, and Mac OS X makes it easy to learn. Here's how to ...

Learning how to code has never been easier. Whether you're a programming newbie or an old hand looking to learn a new skill or two, these four free services have you covered.

Month after month, people come to that column to find new places to learn a programming language. It was so popular that I wrote a sequel this year, with 7 more places you can learn to code for free.

Control Structures: Learn about conditionals (if, else), loops (for, while), and how they control the flow of your program. Functions: Functions allow you to modularize and reuse code.

Codecademy’s founders, Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski, argue that everyone should know how to program—that learning to code is becoming as important as knowing how to read and write. I concur.

The Web is teeming with code because code is text and text is cheap, portable and searchable. Copying is encouraged, not frowned upon. The neophyte programmer never has to learn alone.

Vague, indirect, approximate code isn’t going to work. Programming successfully means expressing exactly what we want to do, in no uncertain terms. 4. Write concisely.

The result of this transformation may be what Jason Tanz posits as “the end of code” in his May 2016 WIRED article "Soon We Won't Program Computers. We'll Train Them Like Dogs." ...