For Dummies, Wiley. Never mind the name, these are very smart books with clear, concise and often funny instructions about how to use various computer programs.

How to find a good book is simple. Get two or three on the same subject. Today, software applications are often the culmination of decades worth of functions and features that includes everything ...

If you are a certain age, your first programming language was almost certainly BASIC. You probably at least saw the famous book by Ahl, titled BASIC Computer Games or 101 BASIC Computer Games. The … ...

The 2010 book Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer was highly criticized this week; it shows Barbie designing a game, but relying on male friends to code it for her. So the Internet set out to fix it.

Now, in Smiley’s new book, “The Man Who Invented the Computer,” we have the long version. The title character — the ­real-life “guy at Iowa State” — is John Vincent Atanasoff, ...