We’ll start by creating small programs for our very own video game to show how statements Today, Carrie Anne is going to start our overview of the fundamental building blocks of programming languages.

NPR's Scott Simon takes a moment to remember the legacy of computer scientist Larry Tesler, the man who came up the copy-and-paste function. Tesler died this week at the age of 74. A moment now to ...

A procedure is run by calling it. To call it, a programmer uses the procedure name and includes any parameters (values) that the procedure needs, for example: SUBROUTINE f_TO_c(temperature_in_f) ...

There are two types of subroutine: Procedures perform a specific task but do not return a value. Functions manipulate data and return a value to the main program. A local variable is a variable that ...