A program is teaching computer coding to felons who find it tough to get jobs out of prison. It's landing some of them six-figure salaries. Program organizers said it is addressing public safety.

For a person to succeed after getting out of prison, it’s helpful to have a support system as well as a marketable skill. For ...

A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across a video posted to YouTube by the Microsoft Citizenship group titled “Woolly worms to worlds of opportunities: Jeremy’s story.” The video tells a story of a ...

Twenty-six-year-old Blisha Magar is one of 20 refugees working away in a classroom during a free computer coding boot camp called Refcode. The program, led by software engineers, teaches refugees tech ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inside the barbed wire walls of NCCI Gardner, a small group of inmates is taking advantage of a new initiative that could change ...

As the need for IT professionals continues to rise with the migration of the workforce to remote work and digital spaces, the urgency for schools to teach computer science increases with it. At the ...

A lone starfighter floated on a pitch black computer screen, rotating on an invisible axis. All at once, the ship lurched into action, firing a white bolt that dissolved its target, then swiveled to ...

Phanuelle Manuel said having a fellow Black woman as a mentor helped her visualize a future in computer science. Manuel, and hundreds of other high school students, received training, mentorship and ...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — An after-school computer coding program has been hard at work developing a helping hand for students learning the art of computer science. Centennial's theCoderSchool mentors ...

Knowing how to write computer code has become a valuable skill in today’s increasingly digital world, but learning how to do it can seem like a daunting task. (WTOP/Nick Iannelli) Knowing how to write ...