The message from many educators, technology industry executives and politicians is clear – everyone should learn how to code. But why? “As more communication is being conducted through code, we are ...

Coding skills have long been associated with workforce readiness and the digital fluency that students will need to thrive in the modern workplace. But the benefits of coding also extend to more ...

There's technology everywhere you look — from the phone in your hand to the car you ride in. Imagine being able to understand and perhaps even create the technology around you. This is where coding ...

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 ...

The idea of teaching coding to children is not new. Back in the late 1960s, my mentor at MIT, Seymour Papert, developed the first programming language for children, called LOGO. Although computers ...

Some computer literacy advocates say learning to read and write computer code is practically as important as understanding the english language. And they say it will become even more important in the ...

Teaching people how to code through widely available programs is the consensus solution to filling a talent shortage facing U.S. tech companies. The White House estimates that 600,000 tech positions ...

The importance of educational coding games and tools and the need to bring them into U.S. schools is being recognized at all levels as necessary to the future. At the recent 12th annual Games for ...

In general, we associate coding with hi-tech contexts and users. And in more recent years, we have been hearing about how coding involves knowledge and skills that future generations will need in ...