Programming news stories

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have become a crucial part of operating web and mobile application businesses and are causing significant economic growth in the digital sector.

A Micro Focus survey finds COBOL is viewed as strategic by 92% of respondents, and the amount of COBOL code in daily use increased to 775-850 billion lines. 

GitHub has announced the rollout of a technology preview with substantial code searching improvements. 

Software architecture, Java and machine learning are amongst the top programming skills ranked by software engineers as important to their role in 2021.

SAS has released free online learning tools to help professionals and students keep their minds active during the global lockdowns caused by COVID-19.

Twilio is sponsoring the planting of trees to reforest Australia for each person who completes certain challenges in its JavaScript training game.

JavaScript is still a winner when it comes to programming languages but Kotlin, HCL, TypeScript and PowerShell are quickly climbing the ranks.

With invention at its core, the Droid Inventor Kit fosters creativity and problem-solving skills...

"More than 1 million kids and adults from around the world are already using Swift Playgrounds to learn the fundamentals of coding."

“The large industries hiring now reflect what we’re seeing in our economy."

The Vodafone Foundation will fund three technology development grants to Zeal, Gamelabs and Sticks'n'Stones in order to help NZ youth.

Lower Hutt students and teachers are being invited to attend a free workshop to learn about coding and computer programming this school holidays.

"It’s as important as handwriting used to be. It’s not just a skill for the future, it’s a skill for now.”