A few days ago I wrote a post about what programming language you should learn first for a career in programming. This sparked a lot of conversation (much of it on Google+ submitted without reading ...

JavaScript has been around since the 90s — and it’s been one of the most popular coding languages around for almost as long. If you’re a first-time coder, learning JavaScript is a great place to start ...

John Resig of jQuery fame outlines why Khan Academy decided to offer JavaScript as their first computer language. With video, of course. Khan Academy, the wildly successful series of free ...

On Friday, December 4, JavaScript turns 25. The venerable client-side scripting language had a wobbly start when Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich unveiled it in 1995, but today it runs on every Web ...

The Internet giant has issued the first stable release of the programming language for Web apps. Also: a host of tools to help it gain a foothold. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Let’s begin with the good news. Google’s Dart is a modern, full-featured tool designed by grabbing the best features of Java, JavaScript, and C. The development team is obviously large, and the ...

Google will be launching a fund of $200,000 to sponsor the development and implementation of performance-related features in third-party JavaScript frameworks. The fund's launch was announced earlier ...