Some robots make people feel like climbing the wall, and other robots climb the walls themselves. Root a new code-teaching robot is the latest in a long line of teaching bots designed to inspire ...

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey have one thing in common — they both taught themselves to code. Coding can be a very lucrative skill, and learning languages like Perl can ...

In a recent Guardian op-ed, Ben Tarnoff claims to expose a nefarious reason behind schools’ push to add computer science requirements to their core curriculum. “The campaign for code education isn’t ...

Programming is quickly becoming an essential skill of the 21 st century. The traditional definition of literacy is expanding to incorporate new forms of reading and writing that include markup, ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — For years, instructors at DeltaV have talked about the huge career opportunities available in computer science in Iowa. Now the school is working to prove it. On Wednesday (Aug. 2), ...

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To most Stanford students, CS 106A: Programming Methodology is a rite of passage: each year, the introductory programming course supports over 1,600 students from all academic disciplines. However, ...

Teaching people how to code through widely available programs is the consensus solution to filling a talent shortage facing U.S. tech companies. The White House estimates that 600,000 tech positions ...

Every era demands—and rewards—different skills. In different times and different places, we have taught our children to grow vegetables, build a house, forge a sword or blow a delicate glass, bake ...