“They Don’t Even Know How to Use Excel”: Companies’ Growing Digital Disillusionment With Not-So-Tech-Savvy Gen Z

Hailed as “digital natives,” members of the Gen Z often fall far short of the promises made about their tech skills.
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From machine code to modern software: A brief history of programming

Programming began as a way to give simple instructions to machines that barely worked. Over decades, it evolved through punch ...
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Engineering Faculty, Students Bring Coding Skills to Elementary Schools

Over 170 students and faculty from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science introduced children from kindergarten through fourth grade to the foundations of coding with hands-on ...

OpenAI spills technical details about how its AI coding agent works

On Friday, OpenAI engineer Michael Bolin published a detailed technical breakdown of how the company’s Codex CLI coding agent ...
MIT Technology Review

OpenAI’s latest product lets you vibe code science

OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to. The firm has released a free LLM-powered ...
Communications of the ACM

The Process-Object Duality of Learning Programming in the GenAI Era

GenAI may be accelerating a developmental transition in how learners conceptualize programming itself.
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Effects of small airtime rewards linked to unsolicited text messages on uptake of a tuberculosis self-screening app in South Africa: a randomised trial

Objectives The objective of this study was to test whether an airtime reward increased tuberculosis (TB) Check screening uptake. This served as a feasibility study for the planned Phase 2, which aimed ...