One of the most common questions I get from teachers and parents is: What programming language should we use to teach kids to code? Is it important to always start with block-based languages like ...

One sunny summer morning this month, a group of 20 teenage girls gathered in a conference room in the sleek offices of a tech company in New York. It was their fifth week of coding camp, and they were ...

Late last month, President Obama announced a plan to help all students have access to computer science in school. The president’s 2017 budget proposal includes money for states and districts to expand ...

You might think coding is a novel trend that doesn’t have other applications beyond programming, but coding offers many connections to multiple subjects, with the added benefit of reinforcing ...

A Los Angeles startup called codeSpark has raised $4.1 million in seed funding for web and mobile games that teach kids how to code, even before they know how to read and write effectively.

Coding is a big deal right now. Worldwide, 36 million kids have taken part in “Hour of code” activities, helping them become active, rather than passive users of technology and starting learning that ...

At the upper bounds of education, in the post-college and career training universes, we think of computer coding as a skill. It’s a thing you can learn how to do that will make you more valuable as an ...

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