When it comes to coding, staring at a textbook and reading theory after theory won’t do you much good. As with all skills, learning to code takes practice, and if you want to get hands-on experience ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...