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10 PRINT: a book about a one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program

BASIC. Computer mags of the era were stuffed with type-in programs that anyone patient enough could run, and some were very ...
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Book excerpt: "Source Code: My Beginnings" by Bill Gates

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In Bill Gates' new autobiography, "Source Code: My Beginnings" (published February 4 by Knopf), the computer pioneer and ...
The Conversation

AI gives nonprogrammers a boost in writing computer code

Leo Porter receives funding from the National Science Foundation and receives compensation for sales of the book "Learn AI-Assisted Python Programming." Daniel Zingaro receives funding from the ...
New Scientist

The critical computer systems still relying on decades-old code

Earlier this year, the technology world welcomed back a long-lost friend. ELIZA, the world’s first artificial intelligence chatbot, had wowed the computer scientists of the mid-1960s with its ability ...