Open World Games Minecraft devs "want to avoid treating players in a way that feels unfair," so Mojang's guiding principle is that "bad things happen, but they're technically the player's fault" ...

Sometimes, reading Python code just isn’t enough to see what’s really going on. You can stare at lines for hours and still miss how variables change, or why a bug keeps popping up. That’s where a ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

Fort Worth is revamping its Code Rangers program, where neighbors can report possible code violations to the city. Ty Kitchens, interim superintendent for neighborhood investigations and code ...

The Internal Revenue Service has released to the public the vast majority of the code used to develop its Direct File program, theoretically allowing anyone to build their own versions of the software ...

AI-based coding has exploded in popularity on the promise that it will make developers’ jobs faster and easier. But AI coding has also resulted in something else: a vast increase in lines of code, and ...

Even though AI can generate code, it is hard to trust it unless you debug the code before implementing it. That is why in this post, we are going to talk about the Debug-Gym tool from Microsoft ...

AI Still Struggles to Debug Code, But for How Long? Many of the world's most popular AI tools, such as those from OpenAI and Anthropic, are not yet debugging pros, according to Microsoft Research, but ...

There are few areas where AI has seen more robust deployment than the field of software development. From “vibe” coding to GitHub Copilot to startups building quick-and-dirty applications with support ...

AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI labs are increasingly being used to assist with programming tasks. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in October that 25% of new code at the company is ...

The ongoing proliferation of AI coding tools is not only boosting developers’ efficiency, it also signals a future where AI will generate a growing share of all new code. GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke ...

Abstract: Currently, a lot of universities are offering Java programming courses for teaching the first-step object-oriented programming language. For novice students, to master writing readable codes ...