Programming

A programming language is a formal constructed language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs to control the behavior of a machine or to express algorithms.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Programming"

AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference

Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI

Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications

Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups

Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems

More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech

What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)

Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value

A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back

Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager

The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum

Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change

More most read this week tagged "programming"...

Programming Books

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

More programming books...

Lists

Professional Assembly Language by Richard Blum

The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan

The Art of Assembly Language by Randall Hyde

Professional Linux Kernel Architecture by Wolfgang Mauerer

Linux Programming

10 books — 4 voters

Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen

The Algorithm Design Manual by Steven S. Skiena

Scratch 2.0 Programming by Denis Golikov

Programmer

70 books — 11 voters

Language Implementation Patterns by Terence Parr

ZX Spectrum Games Code Club by Gary Plowman

The Garbage Collection Handbook by Richard Jones

Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming by Daniel Kusswurm

A Study Path For Game Programmer Part 2

101 books — 4 voters

Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests by Steve Freeman

Create an Uber Clone in 7 Days by Shai Almog

A Software Developer’s Reading List

7 books — 6 voters

Your Guide To Scrivener by Nicole Dionisio

Get Started With HTML5 by Matthew Hughes

Best Technical Books

89 books — 56 voters

A Brief History of Intelligence by Max Solomon Bennett

290 books — 112 voters

Related Genres

Science
Computer Science
Computers
Scieñce
Sciençe

Featured News & Interviews

Ten Years of Horror Hits to Read This October

Read »

Quotes Tagged “Programming”

“ Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live ”
― John Woods

134 likes

“ When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass. ”
― Larry Wall

31 likes

More quotes...