Continuing with our programming series, we will talk about Function – much of all that it entails. Understanding functions is important if you want to learn how to code. The same applies to current ...

A procedure is run by calling it. To call it, a programmer uses the procedure name and includes any parameters (values) that the procedure needs, for example: SUBROUTINE f_TO_c(temperature_in_f) ...

There are two types of subroutine: Procedures perform a specific task but do not return a value. Functions manipulate data and return a value to the main program. A local variable is a variable that ...

Parts of the brain are "rewired" when people learn computer programming, according to new research. Scientists watched ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...