Three competitive programming teams from Northwestern participated in the 2025 International Collegiate Programming Contest’s (ICPC) North America Mid-Central Regional Contest, held Nov. 8 at the ...

In the pre-large language model (LLM) Stack Overflow era, the challenge was discerning which code snippets to adopt and adapt effectively. Now, while generating code has become trivially easy, the ...

Learning Python on your Android device is totally doable these days. Gone are the days when you needed a full computer setup. Whether you’re just starting out or want to code on the go, there are some ...

Abstract: This paper discusses the design and early imple-mentation of a new online coding tutorial system for teaching Python to novice programmers. The main contribution is to develop Python OCTS, a ...

What’s the best way to bring your AI agent ideas to life: a sleek, no-code platform or the raw power of a programming language? It’s a question that sparks debate among developers, entrepreneurs, and ...

Credit: Image generated by VentureBeat with FLUX-pro-1.1-ultra A quiet revolution is reshaping enterprise data engineering. Python developers are building production data pipelines in minutes using ...

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

On Wednesday afternoon, Anthropic experienced a brief but complete service outage that took down its AI infrastructure, leaving developers unable to access Claude.ai, the API, Claude Code, or the ...

The same prompts in GPT-5 yield success, crashes, or errors. OpenAI's prompt optimizer helps, but introduces its own quirks. AI "unconsciously" adding details raises trust concerns. Do AI's get ...

Getting input from users is one of the first skills every Python programmer learns. Whether you’re building a console app, validating numeric data, or collecting values in a GUI, Python’s input() ...

Functions are the building blocks of Python programming. They let you organize your code, reduce repetition, and make your programs more readable and reusable. Whether you’re writing small scripts or ...