Jason Hiner is the former Editor in Chief and Vice President of ZDNET. He was previously Senior Editorial Director of CNET Advice and Global Editor in Chief of TechRepublic. He's an award-winning ...

South Hills High School teacher Saleta Thomas bills her class as a digital game-design program for students. But once students opt to take the class, they start learning computer coding through basic ...

As the need for mobile apps developers increases and interest in computer science courses wanes, professional educator-programmers are reaching out to a younger generation of potential coders: ...

Technology has transformed nearly every aspect of our daily lives, even how students view the job market. A research study conducted by KX, a UK-based software company, shows that 49% of 16-24 year ...

A group of Northwestern students formed CodeID, a new campus organization, to broaden access to coding resources and education for students in Chicago and Evanston. CodeID, or Code for Inclusion and ...

With his computer plugged into a projector at the front of the room, Hudson Blankner, a freshman in Gabe Johnson’s Computational Foundations 1 class, displayed his final project: a trio of classic ...

Introducing regular coding activities to students isn't as challenging as you might think--here are some apps to get started Inspired by the Hour of Code, many educators have pledged to go well beyond ...

When our middle school started offering a robotics course to its students this year, it was a pretty big deal. I’d used a gamified coding platform in my previous district and figured it would be a ...

Northwestern Computer Science leaders Samir Khuller and Sara Owsley Sood are no strangers to tidal shifts in their discipline’s technology. In June 2007, Sood graduated from Northwestern Engineering ...

Last June, Microsoft-owned GitHub and OpenAI launched Copilot, a service that provides suggestions for whole lines of code inside development environments like Microsoft Visual Studio. Available as a ...

In the modern world, computers are everywhere. Because of this, many wonder if every engineering student needs to learn how to code. While not every engineer will sit and write software all day, ...