Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Computer-programming employment fell steeply after the introduction of ChatGPT and has returned to its lowest level since 1980.

Tech workers are increasingly worried that the artificial intelligence they are building will replace them. But some are optimistic that it is just one more tool to work with.

Editorial Note: We earn a commission from partner links on Forbes Advisor. Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Computer programming is the bedrock of the computer systems, ...

Ada Lovelace was the world’s first computer programmer. Too bad nobody has that title anymore. Born in 1815, Lovelace was a 19th-century English mathematician credited with first interpreting how to ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

On a most basic level, a computer programmer writes, well, programs. Programmers will also rewrite, debug, maintain, and test (and retest) software and programs that instruct the computer to ...

The first known use of the word “computer” was in 1613 in a book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by English writer Richard Braithwaite. In it he said, “I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the ...

Building software requires establishing step-by-step logical and meaningful programs, procedures, and associated documents to be read by a computers’ hardware, which is integral to the successful ...

Many older computer programmers believe they are victims of discrimination; they think companies push them out in favor of younger IT hires who are perceived as more knowledgable about the latest ...