In our look at scientific computing and the continued longevity of Fortran in science and engineering circles, one of the recurring themes in the discussion that followed was performance. One of the ...

When you think about “coding,” what comes to mind? Maybe a terminal screen with green, square-ish letters and a blinking cursor? Maybe a line or two of incomprehensible brackets and shortened words ...

I was thinking about writing a REALLY simple script to count out the number of characters in a text file, to any given point in the file (how much of the text is in the first x# of characters, etc). I ...

Computers don’t simply "understand" code in the way humans do. They rely on a highly sophisticated series of steps to interpret, compile, and execute the instructions provided by code. In this video, ...

It's a commonly asked question in a world where every software developer wants to get the most out of every clock cycle their programs consume. It was also a topic at a Java "Birds of a Feather" ...