One of the most common questions I get from teachers and parents is: What programming language should we use to teach kids to code? Is it important to always start with block-based languages like ...

Back in 2018, a story went viral about Owura Kwadwo Hottish, a middle-school teacher in Kumasi, Ghana. What was remarkable about this story was the fact that Hottish was teaching his students how to ...

For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In practice, that ...

Java remains the most popular programming language, but few people would call it the coolest programming language. Some may even argue that it's an increasingly outdated language and, for that reason, ...

A department at New York University is beginning to use a free online service to help teach computer-programming courses. A department at New York University is beginning to use a free online service ...

Taylor Howell works on a Java coding assignment in Lisa Whallon's class at Olathe Northwest High School. A teenager wakes up, gets ready for school. Slips a smartphone into her pocket on the way out ...

A while back, TheServerSide tackled the value of teaching Java as an introductory programming language. The author did a nice job of analyzing the language in terms of its features, its complexity and ...

To commemorate the world’s Computer Science Education week, medical students of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), last Wednesday, visited Ishaga Close Primary School in Mushin to teach the pupils how ...

Children as young as 7 will soon learn how to write code and build video games now that one of the newest branches of Code Ninjas is set to open in Collierville. Collierville dads Brandon Aycock and ...

Carnegie Mellon University will release an updated version of the animation-based software developed by late "last lecture" professor Randy Pausch to teach computer programming. Pausch, a Carnegie ...

Area youth who have completed seventh grade or higher and their families are invited to take part in the “Raspberry Pi: Programming a Mini-Computer” activity on July 5 at Black River Falls Public ...

Agris Tamanis cofounded Printful, a billion-dollar print-on-demand company, in 2013 in Latvia. In 2020 he left to teach computer programming at his hometown's high school. He said he felt burned out ...