Still, the computer science department’s popular introductory courses, Introduction to Computer Science/Programming in Java and Computing in Context, are capped at 400 and 340 students, respectively.

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 ...

Computer Science for All reflects the Obama administration’s concerns that an economy based mostly on high-tech industries will exacerbate wage and income inequality unless a more diverse talent ...

Google offers computer science and coding competitions and summer programs. Scratch, developed at MIT, is a free program designed to help children learn coding by programming their own stories, games, ...

The Georgetown University Women Coders, also known as guWeCode, launched the second annual Coding Party in the Healey Family Student Center on Jan. 18 to promote more women to engage and participate ...

On July 21-24, four teachers from northern Arizona joined a summer workshop aimed at integrating computer science into their ...

Every child with a laptop believes they’re going to be the next Zuckerberg, but most can’t debug their way out of a paper bag ...

With Computer Science in Education (CSED) Week and Hour of Code right around the corner, we have a simple request: Don’t teach coding.

However, early exposure to coding toys and apps can build enthusiasm, and that motivation could potentially translate to future computer science work, experts said.

If their prediction is correct, coding bootcamps will have trained about a third of the number of 2013’s computer science graduates (50,962).* And Course Report estimates a drop to 48,700 ...