Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to implement simulated annealing for the Traveling Salesman Problem (find the best ordering of a set of discrete items). The goal of a combinatorial ...

When you think of Arduino projects, your mind likely goes straight to RFID door locks, weather sensors, or automated plant watering systems. While these are undeniably pretty cool projects, you might ...

A couple weeks back we brought you news of KernelUNO, a command line shell and very simple operating system for the Arduino Uno. It’s a neat idea, so it’s hardly surprising to see someone port it to ...

If you’re an AP Computer Science student using CodeHS, you’re about to get a significant upgrade: the platform is refreshing its Python curriculum for Fall 2026 with improved autograders, clearer ...

The strategy—sometimes called “vibe coding” —mirrors how some of the biggest players in Silicon Valley write code these days.

There’s something about the ESP32 family of microcontrollers and timekeeping. We probably see it in clocks as often as we do ...