The tech world is growing rapidly, demanding more skilled programmers. Yet, coding is still an intimidating mountain to climb for many, with its complex jargon and seemingly impenetrable logic.

'Coding skills are a basic literacy these days,' TI's Balyta said. The Texas Instruments calculator – an iconic gadget – is getting an upgrade. And this time, it’s coming with a popular language. The ...

Scientific calculators were invaluable to most of us through high school and college, freeing us from the yoke of using tables to calculate logarithms and trigonometric functions. Once out in the real ...

Microsoft has released a new language server for Python called Pylance, which uses the Language Server Protocol to communicate with Microsoft's popular open-source, cross-platform code editor, Visual ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...