He's known as "Mr. Ark" to the students he teaches computer programming to at Eric Hamber Secondary School, where programming prodigies are winning national competitions and 17-year-old whiz kids ...

If you want to know the truth, programming really hasn’t changed all that much since Ada Lovelace hacked out some code for Charles Babbage’s programmable machine way back in the eighteen-hundreds.

Knuth In the world of Silicon Valley, there are few books held in higher esteem than " The Art of Computer Programming," a multivolume set by Stanford professor emeritus Donald Knuth.

Chris Sammis/Flickr " The four hardbound volumes of Donald Knuth's 'The Art of Computer Programming' — all snug in their dark purple case — send a clear message: Step aside, Muggles, because ...