President Obama was the first Commander-in-Chief to write a line of computer code, after learning the basics of JavaScript on Monday. The lesson put him among the ranks of some 53 million students ...

As part of a computer programming workshop put on by Code.org, Obama punched ... of code that renders a square on the screen. Baby steps!” In JavaScript specifically, says the Verge, the ...

To most of us the code on the screen looks like gibberish. Delano: "Did you know any of this stuff before this class?" McNett: "None of it. Absolutely zero." But knowing computer code can mean big ...

It was a very simple program—all it does is draw a square on a screen—but that's the point, says Hadi Partovi, co-founder Code.org, an organization that promotes computer science education.