The founder of Codecademy explains why learning how to program is the best job security you can have, and how a knowledge of code is the best way to improve the economy and the planet.READ»
Faced with budget cuts but armed with the knowledge that legions of space nerds are standing by to help them out, the space agency is making many of its projects open source.READ»
A U.K.-based program called Decoded promises to teach n00bs to code in a day. Writer Louise Jack (and many ad industry types) signed on to find out if they can walk in with a civilian's basic web knowledge and walk out with an app.READ»
I'm like a broken record at this point: designers, filmmakers, and creative communicators of all stripes should to learn how to code. Clever tools and study guides abound for helping non-hackers start getting their hands dirty on the ...READ»
Today Adobe is launching a public preview of Edge, its tool for web designers that allows moving, interactive graphics on a website using HTML5, not Flash. Adobe tells Fast Company why it's the tip of the iceberg.READ»
Everyone -- including us -- has strong opinions about the right and wrong and everything-in-between ways of using good design to raise awareness and money for relieving humanitarian crises like the one in Japan. Now two designers from ...READ»
You may not know what fractals are, mathematically speaking, but you know what they look like: tangled, crenelated forms bending and burbling in on themselves into infinity in a geometric, yet weirdly organic way. Generating fractal ...READ»
Everyone should be a programmer, says Clive Thompson in Wired. We couldn't agree more -- but let's face it, not everyone is going to be able to manipulate lines of code like Neo in The Matrix. It needs to be easier than ...READ»
Nurse, the screens, please. Android's got itself a nasty little virus--its first. It goes by the name of Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer-A, says Kaspersky Lab, the firm that detected it, and it takes the form of a media player. A ...READ»
Hints in the code of Microsoft's .NET Framework have led some to draw a surprising conclusion: Microsoft may be developing a new OS, based on its "Midori" tech demonstrator, that is a radical departure from its OS history. Long ...READ»
Microsoft may be building a self-branded smartphone to combat the iPhone. But with over 60,000 apps, Apple's behemoth App Store might be too big to beat. What if a Zune (or a Zune-phone) could run iPhone apps? That's the potential ...READ»
