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Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

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Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

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I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

As a data analyst, you have a lot of opportunities to process Excel files. At times you need to do the processing using a program. There are several scripting languages to choose. Here we compare them ...

ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, and Meta's Llama are appearing at an astonishing speed, and the number of people who are actually using them in their daily lives and work is no doubt ...