Knowing how to program a computer is good for you, and it’s a shame more people don’t learn to do it. For years now, that’s been a hugely popular stance. It’s led to educational initiatives as ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

A student completes the Minecraft-themed coding tutorial that Microsoft built with Code.org. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft wants to turn kids’ love of Minecraft into a love of computer programming ...

A handful of nonprofit and for-profit groups are working to address what they see as a national education crisis: Too few of America's K-12 public schools actually teach computer science basics and ...

As digital technology and artificial intelligence play a larger and larger role in everyday life, Louisiana wants students from kindergarten through high school to learn the basics of computer science ...

I remember how foreign it all was when I first started using Linux. Granted, back in 1997, I was only just learning how to use a Windows 95 computer. Sure, I understood the most basic terms -- RAM, ...