From the classic 8 Puzzle problem to competitive coding platforms, puzzle-based challenges are shaping sharper, more adaptable programmers. These exercises strengthen algorithmic thinking, ...

What happens when you put Ohio’s bright young minds in a room with real world problems and a deadline? Some truly amazing tech. 300 students will soon unleash their creativity at the 7th annual Tech ...

This post was updated Jan. 30 at 9:46 p.m. Problem solving was in full swing during the Association for Computing Machinery at UCLA’s inclusivity-focused coding event Jan. 25. Around 100 students ...

As large language models (LLMs) continue to improve at coding, the benchmarks used to evaluate their performance are steadily becoming less useful. That's because though many LLMs have similar high ...

Puzzles are the crux of data science. So argue authors of “Radical Uncertainty” John Kay and Mervyn King, who categorize all modern problems as resolvable uncertainty or radical uncertainty. According ...

After a mathematics win in July, Gemini 2.5 Deep Think has now earned a gold-medal level performance in competitive coding. The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is the “oldest, ...

CS50 isn’t just about learning syntax—it’s about training your brain to think like a computer scientist. Through problem sets, algorithms, and real-world projects, students develop the ability to ...

Long before modern cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, or even graphical interfaces, The Byte Brothers: Program a Problem ...