Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Computer-programming employment in the U.S. has reached its lowest level since 1980, according to data from the Current Population Survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The fall correlates with ...

The survey results also revealed that code volume might not be the best metric for measuring productivity when developers use AI tools. Reading time 2 minutes Is using computer code to debug computer ...

Have computer programmers innovated themselves out of a job? That’s the fear driving theories that AI will remove the need for humans who can write computer code. Today's most sophisticated large ...

More than 45 million U.S. workers could be displaced by automation by 2030 amid advances in the field of artificial intelligence, according to 2021 estimates from the research firm McKinsey Global ...

Like more than a few faculty colleagues before her, computer scientist Amber Wagner, Ph.D., started out by creating an AI assignment that was designed to flop. Teaching a course on the C++ programming ...

A new study finds that 73 percent of Linux programmers believe the SCO Group's legal attacks on the open-source operating system lack merit. Respondents also weighed in on other Linux issues. Stephen ...

For computer programs and mobile applications, programmers must develop code. In order to keep things working properly, they are also involved in maintaining, debugging and troubleshooting software ...

Ada Lovelace was the world’s first computer programmer. Too bad nobody has that title anymore. Born in 1815, Lovelace was a 19th-century English mathematician credited with first interpreting how to ...

This is more of a rant than anything else. Forgive me if it sounds Lounge-y. I've been a Windows sysadmin for 12 years. I enrolled in a Computer Science degree program to make a transition into ...