Who would be better at teaching people how to get code in formation than Beyoncé? That’s what one educator asked herself when she was looking for a way to teach JavaScript. While the singing superstar ...
The “teach kids to code” movement has many thinking that computer science is just coding. Often the two are conflated since coding is definitely the most visible component of computer science. It is ...
Late last month, President Obama announced a plan to help all students have access to computer science in school. The president’s 2017 budget proposal includes money for states and districts to expand ...
In today’s world of rapid technological advancements, educators are asking: what should we do now to give students the skills they’ll need to be successful in work and life in the not-too-distant ...
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced a new addition to its Amazon Future Engineer program – a music remix competition that teaches students how to write code that makes ...
It was an honor to co-author this post with Douglas Kiang, computer science teacher at Punahou School, and CS50 Teaching Fellow at Harvard University in the Computer Science department. Events such as ...
Georgetown University Women Coders held a programming event to provide women with more exposure to computer science fields. The Georgetown University Women Coders, also known as guWeCode, launched the ...
The Code Carrots workshop hosted by Geek Girls Carrots in Seattle gives participants a space and a mentor to work in a project­based environment. (Photos by Lindsey Boisvin) Decked out in orange and a ...
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 ...
In recent years high schools across the country have been adding computer science courses, and there is a movement to make them ubiquitous. A new study of an unusually rich dataset in Maryland found ...