This post was updated Jan. 30 at 9:46 p.m. Problem solving was in full swing during the Association for Computing Machinery at UCLA’s inclusivity-focused coding event Jan. 25. Around 100 students ...

From the classic 8 Puzzle problem to competitive coding platforms, puzzle-based challenges are shaping sharper, more adaptable programmers. These exercises strengthen algorithmic thinking, ...

Moving beyond tutorials into real-world coding challenges can rapidly boost your skills, confidence, and adaptability. By facing messy data, unexpected bugs, and incomplete instructions, you learn to ...

OpenAI’s latest large language model has been specifically designed for reasoning and is capable of generating code to a much higher standard than previous models. The ChatGPT-o1-Preview model ...

What happens when you put Ohio’s bright young minds in a room with real world problems and a deadline? Some truly amazing tech. 300 students will soon unleash their creativity at the 7th annual Tech ...

As large language models (LLMs) continue to improve at coding, the benchmarks used to evaluate their performance are steadily becoming less useful. That's because though many LLMs have similar high ...

What if the tools you rely on for coding, app development, or problem-solving could not only keep up with your creativity but actively enhance it? With the release of Claude 4, Anthropic’s latest ...

After a mathematics win in July, Gemini 2.5 Deep Think has now earned a gold-medal level performance in competitive coding. The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is the “oldest, ...

Puzzles are the crux of data science. So argue authors of “Radical Uncertainty” John Kay and Mervyn King, who categorize all modern problems as resolvable uncertainty or radical uncertainty. According ...