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Topic > programming
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![This lazy programmer’s lifehacks are going viral because humanity is doomed](https://venturebeat-com-develop.go-vip.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/shutterstock_169002578.jpg?resize=350%2C175&strip=all)
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This lazy programmer’s lifehacks are going viral because humanity is doomed
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Facebook launches TechPrep: ‘By 2020 there will be 1M programming jobs left unfulfilled’
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40 key computer science terms explained in ways your boss can understand
![The best programming languages every beginner should learn](https://venturebeat-com-develop.go-vip.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Programmers.png?resize=350%2C175&strip=all)
The best programming languages every beginner should learn
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Startup raises $400k for providing hard-to-get loans to software bootcampers
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How to know if you're learning the right programming language
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Inside the development of Swift, Apple's passion project 4 years in the making
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Codecademy gets a major redesign to take the pain out of learning how to code
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Facebook unveils Hack, a faster programming language to power the social network
![Knowledge-based programming: Wolfram releases first demo of new language, 30 years in the making](https://venturebeat-com-develop.go-vip.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/screen-shot-2014-02-24-at-9-02-50-pm.png?resize=350%2C175&strip=all)
Knowledge-based programming: Wolfram releases first demo of new language, 30 years in the making
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The most popular coding languages for 2014 are …
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Microsoft reportedly developing a programming language called M# — and it may be open-sourced
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The natural weakness of programmers as entrepreneurs
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NoSQL startup Couchbase raises $25M with sales up 400%
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At this Boston school, coding is a graduation requirement
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What’s the right age for kids to learn to code?
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Say hello to 'A is for Array,' an ABC book for kids … about programming
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Wikipedia crowdsources site performance: Speeding up 488,731 templates with a little Lua to go
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Zuckerberg shares cutest story ever about learning to code in new Code.org clip
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How Code.org is promoting an agenda of diversity & equality in the tech world
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Treehouse will now teach you to use the command line, you poseur
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Tackling tech’s gender problem the right way: Teaching women to code
![Codecademy adds API training with YouTube, NPR, Bit.ly, and 6 other services to help new devs build actual products](https://venturebeat-com-develop.go-vip.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/origin_4106448244.jpg?resize=350%2C175&strip=all)
Codecademy adds API training with YouTube, NPR, Bit.ly, and 6 other services to help new devs build actual products
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Pluralsight closes $27.5M to stave off the Great Developer Shortage of 2013
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Meet the Internet boy genius with an app to summarize the news
![Exclusive: PHP, the web’s most popular programming language, is coming to mobile](https://venturebeat-com-develop.go-vip.co/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/php-code.jpg?resize=350%2C175&strip=all)
Exclusive: PHP, the web’s most popular programming language, is coming to mobile
![Wanna learn to code? Here’s your chance](https://venturebeat-com-develop.go-vip.co/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/codeeverything.png?resize=350%2C175&strip=all)
Wanna learn to code? Here’s your chance
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Guess who’s winning the brains race, with 100% of first graders learning to code?
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85 free e-books on developing for Windows, Azure, Windows Phone, SQL Server, and more
![Codecademy gets new money from Index, Kleiner Perkins, & Richard Freaking Branson](https://venturebeat-com-develop.go-vip.co/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/olly-hacker-2.jpg?resize=350%2C175&strip=all)
Codecademy gets new money from Index, Kleiner Perkins, & Richard Freaking Branson
![Just in time for WWDC, here’s a hack for iOS programming on non-Macs](https://venturebeat-com-develop.go-vip.co/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/learn-to-code-company.jpg?resize=350%2C175&strip=all)
Just in time for WWDC, here’s a hack for iOS programming on non-Macs
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Why and how Etsy is targeting women programmers
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Who is the new business programmer?
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Case study: How & why to build a consumer app with Node.js
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How to get a programming job at a startup (infographic)
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Kid studies Java as a second language; should more do so?
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Codecademy raises $2.5M to make you a coding master
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How soon will Chinese developers outpace their U.S. counterparts?
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