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 ...

The president’s 2017 budget proposal includes money for states and districts to expand access to computer science. But just what should students be learning in those classes—practical coding ...

Alice Steinglass, president of code.org, said in today's world where computing plays such a large role in every aspect of life, computer science is foundational to a child's education just as much ...

A pair of library science researchers are working to integrate inexpensive, child-friendly computer coding tools into school and public libraries. Crystle Martin, a post-doctoral student at the ...

Liu, who is an assistant professor of education policy at the University of Maryland at College Park, surmises that taking a class in computer science helps some students overcome popular ...

The competition is intended to uniquely activate young people to try computer science and coding. All high school students across the country are encouraged to enter the competition now through ...

Coding in Color was the only group from Arizona selected by Microsoft's TechSpark program for the honor. "Right now, what we have planned is to install three separate computer science programs at ...

Microsoft's chief product officer of experiences and devices says people should keep learning to code. Computer science isn't dead, Aparna Chennapragada said on a podcast, and engineer roles will ...

[Editor’s Note: University of Washington computer science professor Ed Lazowska offered this response to a piece yesterday by Jeff Meyerson of Software Engineering Daily, titled “Coding ...

In an interview afterward, he said that schools aren't putting enough emphasis on computer-science education, but he has "great hope" that will change and coding will ultimately become a required ...