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I'm a mild newbie programmer-to-be.<BR>I've taken a quarter of C++, and know a modicum of Smalltalk-80(Squeak), as well as some light shell scripting. C++ didn't really groove terribly well with me, ...

This post originally appeared on Code-love. In an online chat session between Yukihiro Matsumoto and Keiju Ishitsuka in early 1993, a discussion ensued about the name of a programming language that ...

If you have between 20 and 40 hours a week to spare for the next three to six months, Mike Subelsky will pay you $20 an hour to learn Ruby programming. Calling all would-be programmers: if you have ...

Bloc, a new educational startup, makes it easy for you to start writing in Ruby. It allows anyone to build and deploy web applications in their browser with zero setup, showing results instantly. This ...

Top coders have near limitless prospects when it comes to employment, or even opportunities to succeed in their own startups. In fact, learning to code is fast becoming a necessary life skill, with ...