South Hills High School teacher Saleta Thomas bills her class as a digital game-design program for students. But once students opt to take the class, they start learning computer coding through basic ...

Changing that is the idea behind Hour of Code, a global campaign that aims to get everyone, kids to adults, to try computer coding for an hour. Supporting such efforts is Argonne National Laboratory, ...

Whether as part of an existing classroom curriculum or as an extracurricular assignment during school closures due to the coronavirus pandemic, parents are increasingly turning to online coding ...

More young students of today will be the computer science leaders of tomorrow. Even now, young students learn "coding language" and how to use it to create new programs. More young students of today ...

The ads for computer coding “boot camps” are everywhere online — promising to teach coding in 12 weeks, 18 weeks, 24 weeks, for free, for more than $10,000, and to put students in line for high-paying ...

As the importance of coding grows each year, school districts inevitably feel pressure to fund clubs and find money for specialized instruction within the curriculum. The pressure is not exclusive to ...

Like many mom friends, Michelle Preddice and Andrea Dabal met through their children years ago. But these days, their meet ups are more business than social. Together, the two are opening up a Code ...

With Prince William schools recently celebrating computer science education week, the division highlighted efforts to make ...

Just about every list of U.S. metro areas that are high-tech centers lists Atlanta in the top 20, but Georgia leaders have visions of moving the entire state even further. They want students to be ...

Apart from companies in the technology sector, there are an increasing number of businesses relying on computer code. No wonder that eight of the top 25 jobs this year are tech positions, according to ...

The school hosts a weekly “Scratch Club,” where fourth and fifth graders use beginner-friendly coding tools to build simple ...