South Hills High School teacher Saleta Thomas bills her class as a digital game-design program for students. But once students opt to take the class, they start learning computer coding through 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 ...

Want to learn to program? These excellent free introductory courses from Codecademy and Coursera will have you coding in no time. So you want to learn to program, but you can’t leave the house. Fear ...

Seventh-graders Jason Tran, left, and David Sushkov work out a problem with a kid-friendly coding program in their computer science class at Mills Middle School in Folsom Cordova Unified School ...

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Until this school year, Pawtucket Schools ...

A free, on-line computer programming course from Stanford University is reaching thousands of learners thanks to the help of thousands of volunteer instructors. Stanford University is once again ...

A broad survey of the computer science discipline, focusing on the computer's role in representing, storing, manipulating, organizing and communicating information. Topics include hardware, software, ...

The Hill may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you buy through our links. Few industries offer a long-term trajectory as promising as computer programming does, as new avenues ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...