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South Hills High School teacher Saleta Thomas bills her class as a digital game-design program for students. But once students opt to take the class, they start learning computer coding through basic ...

Just about every list of U.S. metro areas that are high-tech centers lists Atlanta in the top 20, but Georgia leaders have visions of moving the entire state even further. They want students to be ...

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 ...

Computer coding could soon be coming to a school near you. The Duval County School Board will vote next month on whether to change Andrew Jackson High into a technology magnet, which would offer ...

For Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 7-13), the nonprofit Code.org has helped organize nearly 200,000 "Hour of Code" events around the world. It's advocating for computer coding as a basic ...

ERIKA: IN TODAY'S 5 FOR GOOD, FREE CODING CLASSES FOR KIDS WHO OTHERWISE MIGHT NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THAT KIND OF LEARNING. >> ZOMBIES ON THE ATTACK. THIS IS A VIDEO GAME BRAINSTORMING SESSION. >> THAT ...

At California’s San Quentin prison, inmates who never even used a computer before are learning software development and planning their apps. Like everyone else in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jason ...

“You don’t need to go to grad school. Save your money. I’ll teach you how to code.” Seven years ago, in a bar near downtown Los Angeles, I was sharing a drink with a new friend. We had met on a travel ...

AI has got a new gig. Harvard is tapping artificial intelligence to help teach its most popular coding class next school year. Starting in September, the Ivy League school’s Introduction to Computer ...