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How learning computer programming ‘rewires’ parts of the brain

This is your brain on computer programming. The post How learning computer programming ‘rewires’ parts of the brain appeared ...
Lifehacker

Learn to Code Part III: Arrays and Logic Statements

You've mastered the basics of variables and made it half way through our course, but are you up to the challenge of arrays and logic statements? Of course you are. Let's get started! These lessons ...
ZDNet

This is what happens to your brain when you read computer code

Programmers might need to 'read' code in programming languages, but it's not the language-processing part of the brain where blood flow increases during the activity. Instead, a group of MIT ...
Ars Technica

Getting to QED, Part 1: Informal logic and online argumentation

For regulars at Ars Technica, the forums are as much a part of the site’s identity as the articles. And where there are forums, there are flame wars. The BattleFront is infamous for its contentious ...
JSTOR Daily

Diagrammatic Visible Language: An Investigation of Visual Logic

Visible language, the visual medium of language expression, is becoming more diagrammatic, dynamic, and multi-dimensional. After reviewing the history of visible languages, the author examines the ...
JSTOR Daily

Predicate Logic with Flexibly Binding Operators and Natural Language Semantics

A new formalism for predicate logic is introduced, with a non-standard method of binding variables, which allows a compositional formalization of certain anaphoric constructions, including 'donkey ...