10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents

Like all AI models based on the Transformer architecture, the large language models (LLMs) that underpin today’s coding ...
Purdue University

Basic Needs Program launches for Purdue students

Student Success Programs has announced the launch of Purdue’s Basic Needs Program in place of what was Span Plan Nontraditional Student Services. The Purdue Basic Needs Program improves student ...
Fox News

Cook County in Illinois establishes permanent guaranteed income program

The second-largest county in the United States has established a permanent guaranteed basic income program after the success of a previous pilot version. The Cook County Board of Commissioners ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Ireland Makes a Program Offering Basic Income for Artists Permanent

Should a country financially support its artists? That’s the question that Ireland sought to answer with a pilot program that ran between 2022 and 2025, during which the government provided 2,000 ...
IEEE

Collaborative Programming as a Didactic Learning Strategy in CS1 Courses

Abstract: Concepts and skills related to the basic constructs of programming (variables, types, expressions, assignment, simple input and output, and conditional control and iteration structures) are ...
TechSpot

Microsoft urges customers to prepare for VBScript deprecation in their Office VBA macros

The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...
PC World

Microsoft’s first-ever programming language was just open-sourced

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...
ZDNet

MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation - now you can download it for free

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...
LAist

These community college grads are headed to universities. A basic income program helped make it happen

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Under a scorching sun, thousands of ...
The New York Times

N.Y.C. Mayor Candidate Pitches Largest Guaranteed Income Program in U.S.

Adrienne Adams, the New York City Council speaker who is running for mayor, released a plan to provide guaranteed income for thousands of homeless families. By Emma G. Fitzsimmons Adrienne Adams, the ...
C&EN

Open-Source Visual Programming Software for Introducing Principal Component Analysis to the Analytical Curriculum

Powerful open-source software, such as Python, R, and the commercial software MATLAB, demands good coding skills. Writing original code could be challenging for students with no prior programming ...
eeworldonline

Visual programming interface added to computer-on-module management tools

Congatec has released aReady.IOT, a software package that extends its Computer-on-Module (COM) platform with IoT connectivity tools. The package implements OPCUA, MQTT, and REST protocols for ...