Software is a messy business. Last March the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation publicly abandoned a $170 million software overhaul because of unforeseen technical problems.

Forget a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters, researchers have created a computer program that writes fables by itself.

Combine MISIM (or something like it) with natural language AI, and future programmers could simply write down what they want a piece of software to do, and the computer whips up the code. That would ...

Who writes the programs? The computers and digital devices we use every day have a set of programs to make them work. These programs are made by people called computer programmers.

What is Computer Programming? Computer programming is the process that professionals use to write code that instructs how a computer, application or software program performs. At its most basic, ...

Isaac Asimov, John Updike, and John Hersey changed their writing habits to adapt to word processors, according to the first literary historian of the technology.

Learn how computer programs are constructed with this KS2 primary computing guide from BBC Bitesize for years 3 and 4.