Mobile apps thrive when they allow the user to check, explore or experiment with content in short bursts. Codecademy, meanwhile, is renowned as one of the best ways to learn programming languages such ...

With the tech industry concerned about the lack of skilled programmers coming up through the ranks, it’s hoped that this week’s Hour of Code initiative, which is taking place as part of Computer ...

Computer science has been called the new literacy for the 21st century. And yet, computer science education is on the decline in the U.S., where only 5 percent of students learn how to program. The ...

Less than a year ago, brothers Hadi Partovi and Ali Partovi launched Code.org to help advocate for computer science in the U.S. and increase participation in STEM education by making these subjects ...

Held every December to commemorate the birthday of the world's first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, today marks the start of Computer Science Education Week, a program to inspire students in ...

Changing that is the idea behind Hour of Code, a global campaign that aims to get everyone, kids to adults, to try computer coding for an hour. Supporting such efforts is Argonne National Laboratory, ...

Non-profit Code.org has brought together some of the biggest names in both technology and politics to teach the next generation the basics of programming, and hopefully entice more students to ...

IT-consutling firm Accenture is bringing its Hour of Code coding tutorial into 15 languages for Computer Science Education Week. Accenture produced a tutorial on artificial intelligence in partnership ...

Seemingly every child (and parent) in the world is still obsessed with (or unable to shake) Frozen, Disney’s animated smash hit from 2013. So it’s probably no surprise that Seattle-based nonprofit ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Code.org, the nonprofit that offers free online lessons in computer programming to students from kindergarten to high school, is tapping the power of the force to reach more young ...