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  Hardware

  Coding: The Key to Getting More Women into Tech

  Encouraging more women to become leaders in STEM-related fields remains a top priority for the tech industry even though progress has been spotty at best over the past...

  By: Arthur Cole | Contributor

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  Development

  Straight From the Programming Experts: What Functional Programming Language Is Best to Learn Now?

  According to the TIOBE Index for August 2019, Java is still the top functional programming language skill most software development industry professionals are focusing...

  By: Techopedia Staff

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  Development

  C Programming Language: Its Important History and Why It Refuses to Go Away

  C is one of the most important programming languages in the history of computing. Today, many different programming languages have popped up offering many different...

  By: Techopedia Staff

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  Development

  The Pioneers of Computer Programming

  Unlike some inventions—like the airplane (Wright Brothers) and telephone (Alexander Graham Bell)—the creation of computer programs isn’t tied to any...

  By: Techopedia Staff

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  Technology Trends

  Back to School: 4 Essential Tech Courses

  As the summer goes on, that time of the year where you want to learn a bunch of new skills is coming again. Maybe you're thinking about heading back to school or...

  By: Claudio Buttice | Data Analyst, Contributor

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  Cybersecurity

  Job Role: Cryptographer

  To mathematicians and those interested in the science of encryption, the job of a cryptographer is an interesting one.Basically, cryptographers work on implementing...

  By: Justin Stoltzfus | Contributor, Reviewer

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  Development

  How To Write Code Like Ernest Hemingway Would

  Before you begin programming, you should be curious about other programmers who have already written some great code. Hemingway said: “[A writer] should have read...

  By: Ram Kezel | Public Relations Coordinator

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  Development

  Five Programming Tools for 2020 and Beyond

  The data universe has undergone unprecedented change over the past decade and is poised to see another revolution over the next 10 years as mobile communications, the...

  By: Arthur Cole | Contributor

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  Development

  Functional Programming Languages: Past, Present and Future

  Clojure, Elixir, Elm, F#, Haskell, Idris and Scala are all names you are likely to see among recommendations for functional programming languages worth learning. These...

  By: Ariella Brown | Contributor

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  Development

  Perl 101

  If you've heard about Perl these days, you may think that it's a relic of the '90s, like acid-wash jeans or portable CD players. Nothing could be further...

  By: David Delony | Contributor

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  Software

  Slow Dancing With Technology: Debugging, the Programmer and the Machine

  Anyone who has worked on coding even the most basic projects knows that the process requires a good bit of patience. The numerous pitfalls of trying to write code from...

  By: Justin Stoltzfus | Contributor, Reviewer

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  Development

  Computer Programming: From Machine Language to Artificial Intelligence

  Programming languages were used even before computers were invented. For example, a player piano scroll, that long roll of encoded paper tape, is considered an early...

  By: Allen Hudspeth