Outside schools, coding camps and after-school computer-programming classes have become increasingly common, with children as young as 5 or 6 participating.

The life of Emi Morikawa, 17, changed dramatically after she learned computer programming. Morikawa was just another high school student who liked to study English. But now the young programmer ...

One of the best schools in the world to study computer game design started out as a private company. DigiPen Institute of Technology, a for-profit school with 1,200 students in Redmond, WA, was ...