REDMOND, Wash. — Any resistance the young people in your life may have to learning basic computer science will effectively melt on Monday, when Microsoft and the non-profit group Code.org release a ...

Khan Academy, the free online tutorial website, has launched a new interactive computer science curriculum that features video tutorials, editable script boxes with real-time GUIs, and colorful images ...

Math and computer science teacher Myra Deister of Sunny Hills High in Fullerton didn’t learn computer programming in high school. Neither did most of the professionals who come to speak to her classes ...

Every once and a while, I like to add new ways to do numerical calculations. In this case, it is with Khan Academy's new computer science module. First, a couple of notes about the Khan Academy ...

More than 600 leaders of nonprofits, universities, and tech giants – as well as 50 US governors – have signed a letter in support of updating the US K-12 curriculum to include opportunities to learn ...

With 30 million trials of last year’s Minecraft Hour of Code tutorial, Microsoft and Code.org believe the new offering will again introduce tens of millions to coding for the first time SINGAPORE, 16 ...

At first glimpse, fourth-grader Ava Miller and her classmates at Bellwood-Antis School District’s Myers Elementary School appear to be playing a computer game, but it’s much more than that. They are ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Todd Bishop on Nov 9, 2015 at 5:46 am December 15, 2015 at 7:21 pm ...

What if your child could learn how to code by simply sliding the mouse to make changes to demos in real time? Nonprofit tutorial website the Khan Academy aims to do just that with its revolutionary ...

On Nov. 19, Code.org unveiled a computer science tutorial featuring heroines Anna and Elsa from The Walt Disney Company’s film “Frozen.” The tutorial kicks off the second annual Hour of Code campaign, ...

Code.org has brought in the royal women of Arendelle to get girls interested in computer science. In its latest initiative to introduce more girls and students from other underrepresented groups to ...