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A controversial plan from a Broward County Democrat to require high schools to offer computer coding courses and let students count them toward foreign language requirements was heralded Thursday ...
Online computer courses can teach coding languages, explain how to use a specific product or educate users in digital media literacy.
Legislation that would require high schools to offer computer coding courses wisely recognizes the importance of computer science skills in today's competitive workforce. But the proposal also ...
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, ...
Computer programmers and software engineers are urging that students, even as early as elementary school, learn how to design and write source code for computers.
Computer coding classes: Many educators want to turn coding into a new kind of literacy — a fundamental applied skill, a mode of inquiry and expression — that everybody should know.
Maryland’s legislature is considering a bill to allow computer coding courses to fulfill the foreign language graduation requirement for high school. A similar bill passed the Florida State ...
The drag-and-drop coding apps and tutorials that many K-12 schools use to teach students the beginnings of code may be entertaining, but they don't mimic the work real computer scientists do ...
A St. Louis-based tech nonprofit is training inmates in computer programming while they're still incarcerated to give them a shot at landing jobs in the tech industry and avoid returning to prison.