This week, President Barack Obama typed his first line of code as part of 'Hour of Code', an initiative designed to provide a quick and painless introduction to computer science. The one-hour tutorial ...

If you gave Shelley Charlton an Excel spreadsheet to maneuver, the high school business teacher could dazzle you. But if you asked her how to solve a problem using the Snap! visual programming ...

This story is part of a series on how we learn—from augmented reality to music-training devices. For the students in Emanuelle Burton’s ethics class, the story is tricky to grok. “They’re like, you ...

When Anna Otto evangelizes about the power of computer science to transform lives, she’s not just talking as the computer science coordinator for a suburban Colorado district. She’s speaking as a mom.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Computer science curriculums have long emphasized the power of data, ...

In a small lab tucked away in the computer sciences building at UC Irvine, more than 20 middle school-aged girls sat behind computer screens. With the summer sun beating down just outside, they ...

Times have never been better for computer science workers. Jobs in computing are growing at twice the national rate of other types of jobs. By 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there ...

OUR working class — young and old, rural and urban, Democrat and Republican — is worried about being left behind. With the accelerating pace of technological change, economists warn about job losses ...

When was the last time you went for a day without using a computer? Probably not too long ago. (And you were probably on vacation at the time.) Kids these days are computer wizzes, but they don’t ...

President Obama used his final State of the Union address Tuesday night to reflect on his legacy. But he also put forth some specific proposals for his remaining year in office. And the very first one ...