Many of us will have met young people who have been unable to find a job and wondered why they bothered to spend three or more years studying for a degree. While their plight may seem unfair, the reality is that some skills are in greater demand than others. In many...

Computer programming offers more opportunities than most of the many occupations available to graduates and school-leavers today. We live in a world that relies heavily on innumerable lines of code for many of the activities upon which humans have become dependent....

Here are some compelling reasons why you should consider it Given the abundance of computer programming languages available today, when new ones seem to pop up at regular intervals, it might appear surprising that one has retained its popularity for more than a...

During the decades since the launch of the World Wide Web and browsers, the world has changed considerably. Banks are steadily disappearing from our city streets as internet and telephone banking continues to gain popularity. In practice, the once-ubiquitous automatic...

Although many might assume that the idea of writing coded instructions to direct the action of a machine must be a relatively recent development, the earliest successful attempt to do so was in 1883. Ada Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron, created a stepwise...

Members of Gen Z will have no personal experience of life before the dawn of the digital age. However, South Africans born in the ’60s are sure to recall depending on snail mail and landlines to communicate, and when the only way to keep up to date with current events...