SAN FRANCISCO—At the Game Developers Conference Monday, Roblox rolled out a new set of AI tools designed to let the company’s millions of player-creators create usable game code and in-game 2D ...

For many, the world of computer coding can seem quite daunting. However, code is just like any other language, with its own grammar, syntax, and all the hallmarks of a regular written language. With ...

Historically, learn-to-code efforts have provided opportunities for the few, but new efforts are aiming to be inclusive. A decade ago, tech powerhouses the likes of Microsoft, Google, and Amazon ...

Samaira Mehta, who is 12, became interested in coding at age 6. Her friends didn’t share her enthusiasm. She thought a game might convince them that learning to code can be fun. So she invented a ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a blank screen, overwhelmed by the sheer number of steps it takes to bring a coding project to life? Whether you’re a seasoned developer juggling deadlines or a ...

AI coding assistants are here to stay—but just how big a difference they make is still unclear. Two weeks into the coding class he was teaching at Duke University in North Carolina this spring, Noah ...

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is the upcoming sequel to the hit indie game from 2022; that first game reached more than a million players. But what fans of the two games might not realise is that ...

On February 2nd, 2025, computer scientist and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy made a flippant tweet that launched a new phrase into the internet’s collective consciousness. He posted that he’d ...

Microsoft laid off about 3% of its workforce last week, some 6,000 employees in total. A big chunk of those workers were software engineers, aka coders, according to Bloomberg. At the firm’s big ...

Writers are persnickety creatures. George R.R. Martin wrote all of the Game of Thrones books using DOS and the WordStar word processor -- both artifacts from the 1980s. But when it comes to fussiness ...