In a previous article, we looked at connecting various kinds of Arduino hardware to your Mac. Here's how to get started programming on them to create your own projects. In order to program your ...

Brett Farmiloe is the founder of Featured.com, and recently acquired and revived Help a Reporter Out. I first heard the term “vibe coding” at the 2025 Google Cloud Next Conference. A Googler used the ...

These AI coding agents are as miraculous as they are error-prone, but still worth a try. (Credit: PCMag Composite; imaginima/iStock via Getty Images) With "vibe coding," almost anyone can be a ...

Some people enjoy solving problems, and then there are those who land top tech jobs by doing just that. Competitive programming (CP) is a sport for the mind, where coders have to solve problems with ...

With software developers ranking among the highest-paid and fastest-growing jobs in the world, you would be forgiven if you consider switching your career path or learning how to code. But getting ...

Coding is one aspect of digital making. When you write code, you are writing instructions for a computer to follow. The instructions might just be "turn this graphic by one degree each second", or ...

Today’s journalists are expected to be jacks of all trades. Reporting, photography, video, audio, social media, editing and then some. Added to the mix, some are saying the next crucial skill is web ...

Fifteen years ago, I started this column with the advice that "computers are not a passing fad -- they are here to stay." In this, my last column as USA Today's Kid-Tech Columnist, my advice is: teach ...