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5 coding exercises that improved my problem-solving skills

Any task that tests your mental muscles is a step in the right direction when improving your problem-solving skills. While ...
Indiatimes

Roblox down: Thousands of players report error codes

Roblox, the popular online gaming platform has experienced a major outage late Thursday night (December 18). The outage left thousands of users who were unable to log in or play. Reports flooded ...
IEEE

A Code Comment Generation Method Based on Information Retrieval and Code Structure

Abstract: Code comments can help developers quickly understand code and reduce maintenance costs. However, due to the widespread phenomenon of code cloning and the complex syntax structure of code, ...
GitHub

Many "syntax error" errors. Array and SQR() related?

Here is the BASIC file I used to test. It's the direct output of the default scene of TracerBlender, but with the "MSX Basic-kun Turbo" (i.e. XBASIC) option switched off, so that the output is truly ...
The New York Times

Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students

Dr. Berg teaches philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. Last spring, it became clear to me that over half the students in my large general education lecture course had used artificial ...
appuals.com

How to Fix Error Squiggles Not Showing in VS Code?

The Error Squiggles (the red or green wavy underlines) in VS Code show that there are syntax or semantic issues in your code. These squiggles work through ...
The Escapist

Battlefield 6 Error Code 1:8600 – Meaningless numbers causing players problems – here’s how to fix it

We love a good error code here at the Escapist. That’s the most dev of dev things of all, a code appearing on the screen to tell you something has gone wrong, but ...
Digital Spy

Celebrity Traitors: Nick's connection to Apollo 11 explained & faithfuls make another basic error

In a genius twist – just as cunning as we've come to expect from the makers of the three seasons of The Traitors so far – the murder we expected to happen was drawn out exquisitely over the course of ...
Gizmodo

Microsoft Goes Back to BASIC, Open-Sources Bill Gates’ Code

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...
The Verge

Microsoft open-sources its 6502 version of BASIC from 1976

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit series, NES, and Atari 2600. Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit ...
Computerworld

Bill Gates’ early BASIC code for MOS 6502 released as open source

Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central component of many early home computers, The Register reports. As far back as ...