During college, I enrolled in an educational technology course that examined various methods of teaching computer programming to children. We visited first grade classrooms throughout the semester, ...

The quickly growing Codecademy, a free website that provides computer programming lessons to users, recently made it even easier for teachers to tap into the resources on the site. The New York ...

The Khan Academy has introduced a new computer science platform that teaches users the basics of programming by allowing them to manipulate code and see the effects of their changes side by side. The ...

Yahoo just bought a 17-year old kid's company for $30 million. What do you do if you want to jump aboard the computer science train if you have no knowledge or experience? Going back to school is ...

Information and communications technology (ICT) teachers say plans to shake up the curriculum in England are "exciting" but "challenging". Current ICT lessons will be scrapped from September and ...

Ada Lovelace, known as the first computer programmer, was born on Dec. 10, 1815, more than a century before digital electronic computers were developed. Lovelace has been hailed as a model for girls ...

In one episode 1.06 of the HBO series “Silicon Valley,” Richard, the founder of a startup, gets into a bind and turns for help to a boy who looks 13 or 14. The boy genius takes one look at Richard and ...