Coding is a big deal right now. Worldwide, 36 million kids have taken part in “Hour of code” activities, helping them become active, rather than passive users of technology and starting learning that ...

Robots Bo and Yana could help turn today's kids into a bunch of software engineers. The bigger question: is programming a fundamental literacy skill for the next generation? Gearing Kids Up For A ...

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 ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

JENKS, Okla. — The Learning Experience in Jenks is using a new program to teach kids the basics of engineering. FOX23 spoke with Staci Bouma, Director of the Learning Experience in Jenks, about the ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...