Curtis Roads was barely out of high school in 1970, playing music in the metro area surrounding the University of Illinois, a pioneering center of computer music. He wasn’t a student, but through a ...

If you`re like most computer users, the shelving around your computer system holds your favorite pieces of software, some spare diskettes and maybe a joystick or mouse. But the well-stocked computer ...

Writing about music, a famous, impossible-to-properly-attribute saying goes, is like dancing about architecture. In 2010, anyone who dares write a book about computers runs the risk of facing a ...

OpenStax, the Rice University-based provider of free, peer-reviewed, openly licensed course materials, has expanded its content library with a new computer science textbook: Introduction to Python ...

For years, people who taught about computers have had to deal with textbooks that are obsolete almost as soon as they’re published. Professors at Michigan State have begun using computers to create ...