In recent years high schools across the country have been adding computer science courses, and there is a movement to make them ubiquitous. A new study of an unusually rich dataset in Maryland found ...

Want to learn to program? These excellent free introductory courses from Codecademy and Coursera will have you coding in no time. So you want to learn to program, but you can’t leave the house. Fear ...

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Seventh-graders Jason Tran, left, and David Sushkov work out a problem with a kid-friendly coding program in their computer science class at Mills Middle School in Folsom Cordova Unified School ...

With technology transforming every aspect of peoples' lives, careers in science, technology, engineering, and math have taken off. The evolution of tech startups, mobile apps, social media platforms, ...

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Until this school year, Pawtucket Schools ...

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 ...

A broad survey of the computer science discipline, focusing on the computer's role in representing, storing, manipulating, organizing and communicating information. Topics include hardware, software, ...

On Feb. 24, the Florida Senate passed SB 468, a bill that would allow high school students to fulfill existing foreign language requirements with computer coding courses. A similar bill, HB 887, is up ...

A Florida bill that would have allowed high school students to replace foreign language courses with computer coding classes was rejected in the state House after gaining strong favor in the state ...