To be a successful scientist in academia it is no longer sufficient to be good at science. In addition to expertise in experimental methods and data analysis, scientists must also excel in public ...

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 ...

The experiment was deceptively simple. In 1999, researcher Sugata Mitra placed a computer in the side of a building in a Delhi-area slum in India. Very few of the children there attended school. It's ...

Thanks again for joining us for today’s free live chat on schools making computer coding a powerful learning tool. We’ll be getting underway with Michelle in just about 10 minutes. In the meantime, ...

The “teach kids to code” movement has many thinking that computer science is just coding. Often the two are conflated since coding is definitely the most visible component of computer science. It is ...

In a global effort, researchers are working toward quantum computers. In the meantime, they have to learn how to write code for these devices, which are fundamentally different from conventional ...

The following is a story that originally appeared on the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences website. Spend enough time on a college campus and you will hear the usual stereotypes about computer ...

A movement by parents and lawmakers to get computer coding classes to count toward foreign language credits in school hit a snag this month — but advocates aren't giving up. Sen. Jeremy Ring, a former ...

Spanish. French. German. Computer coding. Are they the same? This question is at the center of a debate in Florida, where legislators are currently considering a bill that would require high schools ...