The message from many educators, technology industry executives and politicians is clear – everyone should learn how to code. But why? “As more communication is being conducted through code, we are ...

In general, we associate coding with hi-tech contexts and users. And in more recent years, we have been hearing about how coding involves knowledge and skills that future generations will need in ...

That’s just not enough. Students need programming experience like they need reading and writing, said Penn professor Yasmin Kafai. In an interview with NewsWorks, she called coding skills “basic ...

Some computer literacy advocates say learning to read and write computer code is practically as important as understanding the english language. And they say it will become even more important in the ...

Should computer coding be written into high school curricula? Coding appears to be the latest education trend, according to New York Magazine: while nine out of ten U.S. high schools don’t offer ...

Teaching people how to code through widely available programs is the consensus solution to filling a talent shortage facing U.S. tech companies. The White House estimates that 600,000 tech positions ...

Anyone acquainted with some aspect of how information is transferred over phones or the internet probably wasn’t shocked by the news that the NSA is monitoring and storing metadata, since intercepting ...

Coding skills have long been associated with workforce readiness and the digital fluency that students will need to thrive in the modern workplace. But the benefits of coding also extend to more ...