Years ago, I wrote a piece suggesting that computer coding should be a basic requirement in junior high schools. I compared it to a required class I myself took in grade school: Typing, a skill that ...

Google today announced that Grasshopper, its tool for teaching novices how to code, is now available on the desktop, too, in the form of a web-based app. Back in 2018, Grasshopper launched out of Area ...

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How can you tell professional programmers from fly-by-night coders? It's all about attention to the fundamentals. It may not have a sexy name like Python, but the C programming language has stood the ...

When that last class wraps up before summer break, it's tempting to let kids forget all about school for a few months. The end of school doesn't have to mean the end of learning, though — in fact, the ...

With as fast moving as technology is these days, coding has become almost as essential to a child’s education as math and reading. Unfortunately, not every school is teaching computer programming just ...

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 ...