But for any student, AP computer science can be hard at times. Super frustrating, especially when there’s a bug in the code. The three said they sometimes questioned whether they wanted to be there.

The organization teamed up with Code.org to develop the newly launched AP Computer Science Principles course to bring computer science studies to students and schools that may have never had it ...

Amazon is making a $15 million donation to Code.org to help the Seattle nonprofit launch a new Advanced Placement computer science programming course aimed at underrepresented groups of students.

While the original AP computer science course focuses on teaching students how to write and test code in the Java programming language, the CS Principles course introduces students to programming ...

The number of students taking AP Computer Science A remained mostly unchanged ... a beginner language aimed at teaching kids and teens how to code, Havard said. Another teacher at a different ...

Hadi Partovi, CEO of Code.org, a nonprofit that works to ... of female and underrepresented students who took a computer science AP exam. In 2016, only 12,642 female students took the traditional ...