Today, we’re going to look at the history of programming Since Joseph Marie Jacquard’s textile loom in 1801, there has been a demonstrated need to give our machines instructions. In the last few ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. - CodeMontana founder Greg Gianforte said just six weeks after their launch, they surpassed the halfway mark for their sign up goal. "We're thrilled," Gianforte said. Right now, over ...

Findings by Hopkins researchers suggest that all humans are equipped with the foundation needed to learn programming ...

Learning programming introduces students to solving problems, designing applications, and making connections online. We are witnessing a remarkable comeback of computer programming in schools. In the ...

Computer science involves much more than writing code. It blends technical knowledge —like programming, algorithms and data systems — with soft skills, such as communication and problem-solving.

Like most high school students, Wells Community Academy junior Darius Taplet doesn’t know much about computer programming, a skill that is increasingly seen as a ticket to the good life. But 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 ...

This is your brain on computer programming. The post How learning computer programming ‘rewires’ parts of the brain appeared ...

Computer-programming employment fell steeply after the introduction of ChatGPT and has returned to its lowest level since 1980. Computer-programming employment in the U.S. has reached its lowest level ...

When Alexander Iverson, 20, was in first or second grade, he learned about subtraction and the order of operations. Though his answers in class and on homework assignments were almost always correct, ...

Back in 2018, a story went viral about Owura Kwadwo Hottish, a middle-school teacher in Kumasi, Ghana. What was remarkable about this story was the fact that Hottish was teaching his students how to ...

“Women are ‘naturals’ at computer programming.” So said the pioneering programmer Grace Hopper in a 1967 Cosmopolitan article. Programming, she explained, is “just like planning a dinner”: It requires ...