Living in our tech focused region of the world, it seems you can’t swing a mouse in Seattle without slapping a computer scientist in the face. But according to Jane Broom, Microsoft’s director of ...

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 ...

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 ...

(TNS) — "A computer is only as smart as the person who programmed it," Bryan Lee with Clemson University told Liberty Elementary students Monday morning. He spoke to them about the importance of ...

Second-grader Harris Jolliffe was glued to a computer screen at Whitney Elementary School on Thursday evening. “Flappy Bird,” a simple but challenging computer game in which users press the space bar ...

As part of Computer Science Education Week, students around the world will participate in Hour of Code, a grassroots movement founded by national nonprofit Code.org to make coding more accessible.

Microsoft today announced that a new Minecraft Hour of Code Tutorial, Hero’s Journey, has been released as part of its ongoing support for Hour of Code. This is the third consecutive year that ...

Students at Rochester Institute of Technology are teaming up with the White House and the Hour of Code this week to give middle and high school students a taste of computer science. The global Hour of ...

ANSBACH, Germany (Dec. 22, 2014) -- On Dec. 11 at Ansbach Middle High School, students and teachers participated in the second annual "Hour of Code," a global event that engages millions of people in ...

Kids who want to learn how to code will now have the power of the "Force" behind them. On Monday, Code.org revealed that it's partnered with Disney to create a free online computer science tutorial ...

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. -- For Jackson Elementary School teacher Thomasa Ross, teaching her fourth graders about math doesn't end with solving equations. She wants to help them understand just how ...

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 ...